News: A team of five birders has recorded India’s first confirmed sighting of the Long-billed Bush Warbler in 46 years, spotting it in Ladakh’s Suru Valley.
About Long-Billed Bush Warbler
- A medium-sized songbird with a long tail and a distinctively long, slender bill.
- Its scientific name is Locustella major.
- It is also known as long-billed grasshopper warbler.
- Appearance: It appears elongated, with brownish-olive plumage finely streaked on the back.
- They are found in select mountainous regions of Central Asia.
- Distribution: China, India, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.
- Habitat: It lives in areas with short grasses and shrubs, such as Rumex and sea buckthorn, and prefers sheltered clearings with thickets of wild gooseberry (Ribes grossularia) along the edges of spruce forests.
- They prefers grassy slopes interspersed with bushes, weeds, and grass.
- Occasionally emerges onto small bushes to sing. Song is a dull clicking sound.
- IUCN Conservation Status: Endangered
