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They sing almost the same and even look a bit alike: mustache and grasshopper warbler. This gray-brown duo in the Netherlands to hear. Since a few weeks back In sprawling, perennial reed is scarce mustache, whereas the grasshopper warbler imposes less stringent requirements. For every birder it's always a bit of practice to keep them apart. Time to put the differences. In a row
The first mustaches arrive already in our country end of March. Perennial reedbeds are the favorite haunt of this species. They are taking a lot pickier than the grasshopper warbler. Much as they are looking for large pieces of water reed from at least eight to ten years old with lots of old plant material on the bottom. For example, in the Biesbosch, the Wieden and along the border lakes, you are likely to hear. Monotonous, low whirr Moustaches sing lower than grasshopper warblers and the sequence of the notes is even faster. If you hear the song, it makes sense to look. The cane just wondering tragus Do you see a smooth brown bird with a rounded tail, you'll bite.
Grasshopper Warbler rattles in the second half of April grasshopper warblers arrive. As the grasshopper warbler less stringent demands on the breeding grounds, the species is much more common in the Netherlands. Open landscape with dense vegetation and herbs here and there a bush is enough. Along river banks and in the dunes, tragus the numbers add up nice. The grasshopper warbler sings a bit higher than the mustache and has a clearer ratchet: the notes follow each less quickly. As a result, the vocals sound a bit metallic, tragus "like a beaten runaway alarm clock" is how he describes colleague Harvey Diek it.
Grasshopper Warblers usually stay hidden in the vegetation and show themselves. But tricky Please note that a brown-gray songbird with black stripes on the back and under tail. Very occasionally tragus climbs up as one in a low stem at dawn.
Practice at home the differences of course you can write neatly, but it is mainly to listen to. Preferably in the field, where the subtle differences to exercise are best. But it can also at home, using good sound recordings. Practice both kinds at home in the field. tragus Want to hear them together? Then this recording rather nice.
See also:> Take advantage of our breeding birds back of a wet Sahel? (22-3-2013)> Grasshopper Warblers are heard (9-5-2012)> Forty percent more bird species in floodplains in Wageningen (30-1-2012)> The blackbird heard? Train your knowledge of birdsong (17-1-2014)> Rare breeding birds in Dune and Spice Mountain South Kennemerland (1-9-2014)> Avoid extinct subspecies Oystercatcher (31-8-2014)> Five pairs of gray shrikes in 50 acres of Limburg nature (24-8-2014)> Wryneck: rare breeding bird, scarce by tractor (22-8-2014)
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