{"id":343516,"date":"2025-07-26T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343516"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:04:01","slug":"long-billed-bush-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/long-billed-bush-warbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Billed Bush Warbler\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: A team of five birders has recorded India\u2019s first confirmed sighting of the Long-billed Bush Warbler in 46 years, spotting it in Ladakh\u2019s Suru Valley.<\/p>\n<h2>About Long-Billed Bush Warbler<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2025\/07\/19\/550x309\/The-Long-billed-Bush-Warbler--Locustella-major--wa_1752951592565.jpeg?resize=550%2C309&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Long-billed Bush Warbler (Locustella major) \" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: HT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>medium-sized songbird<\/strong> with a <strong>long tail<\/strong> and a <strong>distinctively long, slender bill<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Its scientific name is <strong>Locustella major.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also known as <b>long-billed grasshopper warbler<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> It appears <strong>elongated<\/strong>, with <strong>brownish-olive plumage<\/strong> finely streaked on the back.<\/li>\n<li>They are found in <strong>select mountainous regions of Central Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> <strong>China,\u00a0India,\u00a0Pakistan, and\u00a0Tajikistan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<li>They prefers <strong>grassy slopes<\/strong> interspersed with <strong>bushes, weeds, and grass<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Occasionally <strong>emerges onto small bushes<\/strong> to sing. Song is a <strong>dull clicking sound<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Conservation Status:<\/strong> Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A team of five birders has recorded India\u2019s first confirmed sighting of the Long-billed Bush Warbler in 46 years, spotting it in Ladakh\u2019s 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/long-billed-bush-warbler\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long-Billed Bush Warbler\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":343569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039],"tags":[11872,10595],"class_list":["post-343516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-Long-billed-Bush-Warbler-Locustella-major-wa_1752951592565.webp?fit=550%2C309&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}