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Styan's Grasshopper Warbler
Helopsaltes pleskei (Taczanowski, 1890)
Locustellidae — Grassbirds & Allies
Styan's Grasshopper Warbler, Helopsaltes pleskei, is a passerine in the Locustellidae family that breeds on islands off far eastern Russia, the Korean Peninsula and southern Japan, and spends the non-breeding season in coastal south China and northern Vietnam. It is a warbler of shrubland and swamp habitats. The bird’s name honours the naturalist and collector Frederick William Styan.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Locustellidae — Grassbirds & Allies
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: islands off far e Russia, the Korean Pen. and s Japan
- Nonbreeding range
- coastal se China and n Vietnam
