Acrocephalus arundinaceus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 116 meters (381 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.16     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Saline, Brackish or Alkaline Marshes/Pools   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Acrocephalus arundinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acrocephalus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 50 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. aedon (Thick-Billed Reed Warbler) · A. aedon aedon (Thick-Billed Reed Warbler) · A. aequinoctialis (Christmas Island Warbler) · A. agricola (Paddy-Field Warbler) · A. agricola agricola (Paddy-Field Warbler) · A. arundinaceus (Great Reed-Warbler) · A. arundinaceus arundinaceus (Great Reed-Warbler) · A. arundinaceus orientalis (Eastern Great Reed Warbler) · A. atyphus (Tuamotu Reed Warbler) · A. australis (Australian Reed-Warbler) · A. baeticatus (Tropical African Reed Warbler) · A. bistrigiceps (Black-Browed Reed Warbler) · A. brevipennis (Cape Verde Islands Cane Warbler) · A. caffer (Long-Billed Reed Warbler) · A. concinens (Blunt-Winged Paddyfield Warbler) · A. dumetorum (Садовая камышевка) · A. familiaris (Nihoa Reed-Warbler) · A. familiaris familiaris (Laysan Millerbird) · A. familiaris kingi (Millerbird) · A. gracilirostris (Cape African Reed Warbler) · A. gracilirostris gracilirostris (Cape African Reed Warbler) · A. griseldis (Large-Billed Reed Warbler) · A. kerearako (Cook Islands Reed Warbler) · A. kingi (Hawaiian Reed Warbler) · A. luscinia (Nightingale Reed Warbler) · A. luscinia luscinia (Nightingale Reed Warbler) · A. luscinius (Nightingale Reed Warbler) · A. melanopogon (Moustached Warbler) · A. melanopogon melanopogon (Moustached Warbler) · A. mendanae (Marquesan Reed-Warbler) · A. newtoni (Madagascar Swamp Warbler) · A. orientalis (Oriental Reed-Warbler) · A. orinus (Hume's Reed Warbler;large-Billed Reed-Warbler) · A. paludicola (Aquatic Warbler) · A. palustris (European Marsh Warbler) · A. rehsei (Finsch's Reed Warbler) · A. rimatarae (Rimatara Reed-Warbler) · A. rimitarae (Rimitara Reed-Warbler) · A. rodericanus (Rodrigues Warbler) · A. rufescens (Greater Swamp-Warbler) · A. schoenobaenus (European Sedge Warbler) · A. scirpaceus (European Reed Warbler) · A. scirpaceus scirpaceus (Eurasian Reed-Warbler) · A. sechellensis (Seychelles Brush Warbler) · A. sorghophilus (Speckled Reed Warbler) · A. stentoreus (Clamorous Reed-Warbler) · A. syrinx (Caroline Islands Reed Warbler) · A. taiti (Henderson Island Reed-Warbler) · A. tangorum (Manchurian Reed-Warbler) · A. vaughani (Pitcairn Reed Warbler)

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Acrocephalus arundinaceus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 29January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 26, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 19 providers.
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• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• GBIF-Sweden, Bird Ringing Centre in Sweden
• Mokpo Museum of Natural History, Mokpo Museum of Natural History Bird
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Western Palearctic migrants in continental Africa
• University of Gdansk, Bird Migration Research Station, Ringing Data from the Bird Migration Research Station, University of Gdańsk
• Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Upper Silesian Museum, Bird Observations

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5855
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558408
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558408
• IUCN ID: 188556
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 128742

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 181.230 based on 3,393 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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