The Aquatic Warbler
 Morris's British Birds 1891
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Aquatic Warbler
Image Title: Aquatic Warbler
Description: Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus aquaticus)

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Status and distribution Uncommon to rare over most of breeding range. Breeds from Lithuania, eastern Poland, Belarus and Ukraine east to the Urals and also at very scattered localities in central & western Poland, eastern Germany and Hungary. Has bred in France, Belgium and Netherlands, Slovakia, Austria and Italy.

A summer visitor to the Western Palearctic leaving breeding areas and moving westwards or south-westwards in Aug-Sep to occur in Netherlands, Belgium, southern England and western France before flying south to winter in West Africa. Most occurring in north-western Europe in autumn are juveniles. In Britain 20-40 occur most years with the majority on the south coast but also recorded north to Shetland. On spring passage returns to Europe late Apr-mid May and by a more easterly route, rarely recorded in north-western Europe.

Vagrants recorded in Ireland and the Scandinavian countries, Greece and Turkey, Malta, Azores and Canary Is.

Habitat Breeds in marshes and swamps with tussock sedge and reedmace but less frequently in reedbeds. On passage uses reedbeds and most waterside vegetation including nearby bushes and trees.

 

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