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Clamorous Reed-Warblers are relatively large reed birds. Their front is creamy (eyebrows, throat) to buff-cream (face, chest, belly, vent), while the back is grey-brown, with darker grey-brown flight feathers and tail. The eyes have dark-brown irises. The relatively long, almost straight bill has a grey upper mandible, the lower mandible is horn-coloured. The legs and feet are grey.

Twitcher's tip

Compared with other reed birds, Clamorous Reed-Warblers have no striation.

Clamorous Reed-Warblers are no longer considered to be conspecific with the "Australian Reed-Warbler" (Acrocephalus australis).

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Clamorous Reed-Warbler is available HERE .

There are in total 9 extant races of Clamoruous Reed-Warblers. Altogether, their range spans from Egypt (e.g. the Nile river valley), some wetland areas in the Middle East, Arabia and along the southern coast of Iraq and Iran into southern Asia (parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, including Sri Lanka) and on to eastern Asia, up to southern China and, in particular, the Philippines.

In Arabia Clamorous Reed-Warbler are usually found in some isolated areas along the coastal fringe, including the coastline of northern Oman.

They can be found in wetlands with reeds that are tall enough to hide a person, often with interspersed shrubs.

Race "stentoreus"