Fan-tailed grassbird

Fan-tailed grassbird
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Locustellidae
Genus:	Schoenicola
Species:	S. brevirostris
Binomial name
	Schoenicola brevirostris; Sundevall, 1850
Synonyms
	Catriscus apicalis

The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler (Schoenicola brevirostris) is an African species of Old World warbler in the Locustellidae family. The species is closely related to the broad-tailed grassbird of India, and is sometimes treated as the same species.^[2]

The species has a discontinuous distribution across Africa, and can be found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is found in grassy areas dominated by grasses, sedges or shrubs near water (streams, rivers or lakes), from 350–2,150 m (1,150–7,050 ft).^[2]

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References

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^ ^a ^b Madge, S. (2017). Fan-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola brevirostris). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/58725 on 17 March 2017).

External links

Fan-tailed grassbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

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[HBW-2] Madge, S. (2017). Fan-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola brevirostris). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/58725 on 17 March 2017).

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