Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler
Middendorf's Grasshopper Warbler: Medium warbler, rust-brown upperparts, dark brown rump, white underparts with brown wash on lower breast, sides. Throat and eyestripes are white. Tail is short and white-tipped. Legs and feet are orange. Alternates rapid wing beats with wings tucked to sides.
● Song:
"veechee-veechee-veechee"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler: Eats insects and occasionally takes spiders, small mollusks, and berries; forages in dense grass and bushes, staying on the ground or well inside vegetation.
● Breeding & nesting:
Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler: Five to six black streaked, pink eggs are laid in a nest made of dead leaves, plant stems, and dried grass, lined with plant fiber and fine materials, and set in the grass or reeds on the ground. Incubation ranges from 13 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler: Lanceolated Warbler is smaller; paler brown, has dark streaks on underparts, less broadly streaked on crown, and lacks white-tipped tail.