OTHER NAMES: Singing Bush Warbler
Latin Etymology: Horornis ("mountain bird") diphone ("many tonged")
Three partial views of a Japanese Bush Warbler (subspecies H. d. cantans) at Kamakura, Japan - November 2014
Featured Subspecies: Horornis diphone cantans
Weight: 15-22g / Length: 15.5cm / Wingspan: 20-22cm
ABSENT FROM UK / IUCN Red List: Least Concern
The Japanese Bush Warbler is definitely a skulker, a fact clearly represented by the quality of the above photos. I suspect this is also a contributing factor to why it is also known as the Japanese Nightingale, a fact also backed up by its drab appearance and melodious song in the Spring. My sighting of this species was not my most riveting sighting- some brief glimpses of a small, brown bird I'd been alerted to the presence of by its alarm call. I never got a clear view of it as it flitted around through the bushes low to the ground.
Related Species:
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cettiidae
Genus: Horornis
Subspecies: H. d. canturians, H. d. viridis, H. d. cantans, H. d. riukiuensis, H. d. restrictus, H. d. diphone
- Sighting Locations -
- TOKYO/HOKKAIDO 2014 TRIP: Single bird seen poorly in the bushes at Kamakura
*The Japanese Bush Warbler has a lot of names in Japanese, these include Haru-dori (ハルドリ) , Haru-tsuge-dori (ハルツゲドリ), Hana-mi-dori (ハナミドリ) , kyō-yomi-dori (キョウヨミドリ), nioi-dori (ニオイドリ), hitoku-dori (ヒトクドリ), momochi-dori (モモチドリ) and atago-dori (アタゴドリ)
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