Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Japanese Bush-warbler (Cettia diphone) - HBW 11, p. 591
French: Bouscarle chanteuse
German: Japanbuschsänger
Spanish: Cetia Japonés
Other common names: Singing/Chinese/Oriental Bush-warbler, Short-winged Reed-warbler; Manchurian Bush-warbler (canturians)
Taxonomy: Sylvia diphone Kittlitz, 1830, Bonin Islands.
Sometimes treated as conspecific with C. seebohmi. Race canturians has been considered a separate species on basis of differences in plumage and voice; further study, including DNA analysis, required. Birds from S Kuril Is described as race viridis, considered synonymous with sakhalinensis. Borodino Is race restricta (rich rufous-brown above, greyish-olive wash on breast side to undertail-coverts) extinct. Six extant subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- borealis C. W. Campbell, 1892 - breeds NE China, adjacent SE Russia (S Ussuriland) and Korea; non-breeding E China (Fujian), Taiwan and N Philippines (Batan Is, Luzon).
- sakhalinensis (Yamashina, 1927) - S Sakhalin and S Kuril Is; non-breeding SE China.
- cantans (Temminck & Schlegel, 1847) - Japan, incuding coastal islands S to Yaku-shima, Tanega-shima and Hachijo-jima, also Tsushima and Quelpart I (Cheju-do).
- borealis C. W. Campbell, 1892 - breeds NE China, adjacent SE Russia (S Ussuriland) and Korea; non-breeding E China (Fujian), Taiwan and N Philippines (Batan Is, Luzon).
- sakhalinensis (Yamashina, 1927) - S Sakhalin and S Kuril Is; non-breeding SE China.
- cantans (Temminck & Schlegel, 1847) - Japan, incuding coastal islands S to Yaku-shima, Tanega-shima and Hachijo-jima, also Tsushima and Quelpart I (Cheju-do).
- riukiuensis (Nagamichi Kuroda, 1925) - Ryukyu Is (from Amami-o-shima S to Iriomote-jima).
- diphone (Kittlitz, 1830) - S Izu Is, Ogasawara Is and Iwo Is.
- canturians (Swinhoe, 1860) - breeds C & E China (S Gansu and Sichuan E to Jiangsu and W Zhejiang); non-breeding S & SE China, Taiwan, NW Thailand, N & C Indochina and N Philippines.
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A bird shaking its wings while foraging on a bush. Locality Sendai Power Station, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan (ssp cantans)
Josep del Hoyo 30 January 2010 2 years ago 28 sec 4 -
singing from exposed perch, stretching Locality Chong Ming Island, Shanghai, China (Northern) (ssp canturians)
Martin Kennewell 19 April 2008 3 years ago 26 sec 4 -
singing from an exposed perch Locality Chong Ming Island, Shanghai, China (Northern) (ssp canturians)
Martin Kennewell 19 April 2008 3 years ago 42 sec 4 -
Bird hopping around in dead stems Locality Chiba Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp diphone)
Desmond Allen 10 February 2007 26 weeks ago 11 sec 3.8 -
Bird feeding on reeds in marsh. Locality Japan (ssp diphone)
Charles McHugh 4 February 2009 4 years ago 15 sec 3.8 -
Male presenting full song in his territory Locality Japan
Charles McHugh 7 July 2008 4 years ago 1 min 36 sec 3.8
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adult
Locality Heuksan-do Island, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea
AurélienAudevard 22 April 2008 3 years ago 4.2 -
One bird in a bush
Locality Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
Rémi Bigonneau 26 December 2011 1 year ago 3.4 -
bird in bush
Locality Tsurukawa, Machida, Tokyo, Honshu, Japan (ssp cantans)
Desmond Allen 10 December 2001 1 year ago 2.8 -
A bird foraging on a bush.
Locality Sendai Power Station, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan (ssp cantans)
Josep del Hoyo 30 January 2010 2 years ago 2.5
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A bird calling. Locality Hitotsuse-gawa, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan
(ssp cantans)
Josep del Hoyo 27 January 2010 2 years ago 4.5 -
A bird calling. Locality Miike Crater Lake, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan
(ssp cantans)
Josep del Hoyo 28 January 2010 2 years ago 4 -
A bird singing three times. Locality Razdolnaya River Estuary, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp canturians)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2009 3 years ago 3.8 -
A bird calling several times. Locality Waikamoi Preserve, Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaiian Islands
Josep del Hoyo 31 March 2013 5 weeks ago 3
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