Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler
Helopsaltes amnicola (Stepanyan, 1972)
Locustellidae — Grassbirds & Allies
Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler, Helopsaltes amnicola, is a passerine in the grassbird family that breeds in Sakhalin, the southern Kuril Islands and Hokkaido. It was described by Stepanyan in 1972. Its breeding sites are in lowland and coastal areas, where it uses forests or thickets. Outside the breeding season its range is not known, though it is likely to occur in the Philippines and Wallacea. It was once placed with the Old World warblers.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Locustellidae — Grassbirds & Allies
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: Sakhalin and s Kuril Is. (Russia) and Hokkaido (n Japan)
- Nonbreeding range
- unknown but likely Philippines and Wallacea
