Description:

A small, tapered-looking olive-brown or greyish-brown warbler. Olive-brown upperparts are spotted or streaked upperparts and longish graduated tail, indistinct supercilium, and unmarked or only lightly streaked underparts. Underparts have a yellowish wash in first-winter plumage.

Distribution:

Rare passage migrant through central parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, mainly in Gilgit and Diamer. Waterside vegetation, thick grass, tamarisk scrub, paddyfields and grassy slopes with scattered bushes, up to 2500m during passage migration.

Behavior:

Feeds while moving actively through low vegetation. Gleans from stems, working from top to bottom. Forages also on ground; searches among dead leaves. Diet mainly consists of small insects, including dragonflies, damselflies, mayflies, grasshoppers and also other invertebrates like spiders and some small molluscs.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Common Grasshopper-Warbler in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Common Grasshopper-Warbler

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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