The research team broadcast the recording of the song, which brought in large-billed reed warblers from all directions, allowing the team to catch 20 of them for examination and to collect feathers for DNA.

… Nimnuan S. and Round P.D. The breeding area of the large-billed reed warbler—described in 2007 by Birdlife International as “the world’s least known bird species”—has been found in the remote and rugged Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir Mountains of north-eastern Afghanistan, the Wildlife Conservation Society said today.

The underparts are white, with a rufous wash to the flanks. 2008: Further Thai records of Large-billed Reed Warblers Acrocephalus orinus. Lab work comparing museum specimens with measurements, field images, and DNA confirmed the find: the first-known breeding population of large-billed reed warblers. The species has been dubbed as "the world's least known bird". Mustafa Zahir, the agency's director-general, acknowledged the difficulties of trying to protect wildlife in a country preoccupied with the Taliban insurgency.

The Large-billed Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orinus) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. On Sunday, Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency added the large-billed reed warbler to its list of protected species, which was established only last year. 9 g, female mean 32 g). A single bird was collected in the Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 1867, but many had questioned whether it was indeed represented a true species and wasn’t just an aberrant individual of a common species. Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus (Photo by Philip D. Round) Compelling evidence has been released of the continuing existence of the Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus, previously known only from the unique type specimen collected in NW India 139 years ago. Birding Asia, 9: 10.

The first large-billed reed-warbler was discovered in India in 1867, but more than a century passed before a second discovery. The Large-billed Reed-Warbler has olive-brown upperparts; pale-creamy underparts; long bill. The Large-billed Reed-warbler is the world’s least known bird. นกพงปากยาว Large-billed Reed Warbler กันยายน 16, 2016 มกราคม 1, 2019 admin 0 Bird guide of thailand Family Acrocephalidae วงศ์นกพง นกอพยพ Whilst collecting and banding birds in Thailand the ornithologist discovered a species thought to be extinct, the Large Billed Reed Warbler. The large-billed reed warbler was first documented in India in 1867 but wasn't found again until 2006 -- with a single bird in Thailand. It is therefore proposed to list Large-billed Reed-warbler as Least Concern.

The Pamir Mountains, in the sparsely populated Badakhshan province near China, is now home to the world's only known large population of the bird. The first recorded discovery of the Large-billed Reed-warbler was back in 1867. The Large-billed Reed-warbler is the world’s least known bird. The endemic Afghan or Theresa’s Snowfinch occurs there, and Large-billed (or Long-billed) Reed Warbler which may also breed in the area. As well as the great prize, the snowfinch (a bird on hardly anyone’s life list), there is a good chance there are Large-billed (or Long-billed) Reed Warblers breeding at Bamiyan, birds that in the distant past were misidentified as Blyth’s Reed Warblers both here and in the former Soviet Central Asian states. Image by: 1) Parvel Kvartainov Warbler,_Lesser Swamp Acrocephalus gracilirostris Found: Africa The Lesser Swamp Warbler's upperparts are rich brown, and it has a white supercilium.