Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Blunt-winged Warbler (Acrocephalus concinens) - HBW 11, p. 620

French: Rousserolle de Swinhoe German: Strauchrohrsänger Spanish: Carricero de Swinhoe
Other common names: Blunt-winged Paddyfield Warbler, Blunt-winged Reed-warbler

Taxonomy: Calamoherpe concinens Swinhoe, 1870, Beijing, China.
Forms a superspecies with A. tangorum and A. agricola, and has been treated as conspecific with latter. Differs from both, and also from A. bistrigiceps, in combination of plumage characters and biometrics; furthermore, molecular analysis revealed 5·6% divergence from A. tangorum. Three subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

haringtoni Witherby, 1920 - breeds from N Afghanistan E to Kashmir.
stevensi Stuart Baker, 1922 - NE India (plains of R Brahmaputra, in Assam) and adjacent parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
concinens (Swinhoe, 1870) - breeds N & C parts of E China; non-breeding mainly S Myanmar and N Thailand.

Least Concern

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3.7 perched on a r... Hong Kong, Feb 2009

Martin Hale
2.4 Adult perched ... China (Nor..., May 2011

Mark Andrews