Black-browed Reed Warbler

Acrocephalus bistrigiceps Swinhoe, 1860

Black-browed Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus bistrigiceps, is a reed warbler of the family Acrocephalidae that breeds in eastern Mongolia and south-eastern Russia through eastern China to Japan, and moves to south-east Asia and the Greater Sundas outside the breeding season. It was described by Swinhoe in 1860. It is closely related to the more widespread Eurasian Reed Warbler and is similar to it. The bird forages near the ground in intact reed beds.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Acrocephalidae — Reed Warblers & Allies

Breeding range

Palearctic: e Mongolia and se Russia to e China and Japan

Nonbreeding range

se Asia to Greater Sundas