Family
Grassbirds and Allies
Locustellidae
60 species with a page on Motmot.
Order: Passeriformes
Locustellidae is a recently recognised family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family. It contains the grasshopper warblers, grassbirds, and the Bradypterus "bush warblers". These birds occur mainly in Eurasia, Africa, and the Australian region.
Species in this family
- Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala
- Bangwa Warbler Bradypterus bangwaensis
- Barratt's Warbler Bradypterus barratti
- Brown Emutail Bradypterus brunneus
- White-winged Swamp Warbler Bradypterus carpalis
- Highland Rush Warbler Bradypterus centralis
- Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler Bradypterus cinnamomeus
- Dja River Swamp Warbler Bradypterus grandis
- Grauer's Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri
- Evergreen-forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi
- Grey Emutail Bradypterus seebohmi
- Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus
- Fan-tailed Grassbird Catriscus brevirostris
- Buff-banded Bushbird Cincloramphus bivittatus
- Brown Songlark Cincloramphus cruralis
- Papuan Grassbird Cincloramphus macrurus
- New Caledonian Thicketbird Cincloramphus mariae
- Rufous Songlark Cincloramphus mathewsi
- Rusty Thicketbird Cincloramphus rubiginosus
- Long-legged Thicketbird Cincloramphus rufus
- Tawny Grassbird Cincloramphus timoriensis
- Sri Lanka Bush Warbler Elaphrornis palliseri
- Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes amnicola
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Gray's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes fasciolatus
- Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes ochotensis
- Pleske's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes pleskei
- Marsh Grassbird Helopsaltes pryeri
- Friendly Bush Warbler Locustella accentor
- Bamboo Warbler Locustella alfredi
- Taiwan Bush Warbler Locustella alishanensis
- Sulawesi Bush Warbler Locustella castanea
- Long-tailed Bush Warbler Locustella caudata
- Sichuan Bush Warbler Locustella chengi
- Baikal Bush Warbler Locustella davidi
- Buru Bush Warbler Locustella disturbans
- River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis
- Dalat Bush Warbler Locustella idonea
- West Himalayan Bush Warbler Locustella kashmirensis
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides
- Brown Bush Warbler Locustella luteoventris
- Long-billed Bush Warbler Locustella major
- Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli
- Javan Bush Warbler Locustella montis
- Seram Bush Warbler Locustella musculus
- Common Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia
- Taliabu Bush Warbler Locustella portenta
- Benguet Bush Warbler Locustella seebohmi
- Chinese Bush Warbler Locustella tacsanowskia
- Spotted Bush Warbler Locustella thoracica
- Malia Malia grata
- Striated Grassbird Megalurus palustris
- Spinifexbird Poodytes carteri
- Little Grassbird Poodytes gramineus
- New Zealand Fernbird Poodytes punctatus
- Cordillera Ground-Warbler Robsonius rabori
- Bicol Ground-Warbler Robsonius sorsogonensis
- Broad-tailed Grassbird Schoenicola platyurus
- Bristled Grassbird Schoenicola striatus
Lookalikes compared
- Broad-tailed Grassbird vs Striated Grassbird
- Brown Bush Warbler vs Spotted Bush Warbler
- Chinese Bush Warbler vs Spotted Bush Warbler
- Fan-tailed Grassbird vs Little Rush Warbler
- Friendly Bush Warbler vs Long-tailed Bush Warbler
- Friendly Bush Warbler vs Sulawesi Bush Warbler
- Knysna Warbler vs Barratt's Warbler
- Lanceolated Warbler vs Brown Bush Warbler
- Lanceolated Warbler vs Chinese Bush Warbler
- Lanceolated Warbler vs River Warbler
- Lanceolated Warbler vs Savi's Warbler
- Lanceolated Warbler vs Spotted Bush Warbler
- New Caledonian Thicketbird vs Broad-tailed Grassbird
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler vs Common Grasshopper Warbler
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler vs Lanceolated Warbler
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler vs Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler vs Pleske's Grasshopper Warbler
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler vs Sri Lanka Bush Warbler
- River Warbler vs Common Grasshopper Warbler
- River Warbler vs Savi's Warbler
- Savi's Warbler vs Common Grasshopper Warbler
- Spotted Bush Warbler vs Striated Grassbird
- West Himalayan Bush Warbler vs Russet Bush Warbler
- West Himalayan Bush Warbler vs Striated Grassbird