River warbler

For the South American species sometimes known as the river warbler, see Riverbank warbler.

River warbler
In Horred, Västra Götaland, Sweden
Song recorded in the Netherlands
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Locustella
Species:
L. fluviatilis
Binomial name
Locustella fluviatilis
(Wolf, 1810)
Range of L. fluviatilis
  Breeding
  Passage
  Non-breeding
  Possibly Extant (passage)

The river warbler (Locustella fluviatilis) is an Old World warbler in the genus Locustella. It breeds in eastern and central Europe and is migratory, wintering in inland southern Africa, from around the Zambezi River south to the vicinity of Pretoria in South Africa.

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