Acrocephalus tangorum La Touche, 1912

Le, Hung Manh, Ho, Thang, Le, Trung Nguyen Thoi, Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc & Nguyen, Thach Dang, 2024, New records of birds from Central Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 133721-e 133721 : e133721-

Acrocephalus tangorum La Touche, 1912

Acrocephalus agricola tangorum

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceID: C34D6A85-B47C-5532-9546-963BBEC9CA83; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Aves; order: Passeriformes ; family: Acrocephalidae ; genus: Acrocephalus ; Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Khanh Hoa; locality: Thuy Trieu lake ; verbatimElevation: 4 m; verbatimLatitude: 16 ° 59.038 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 109 ° 12.415 ’ E

Conservation status

Vulnerable

Distribution

Manchurian Reed Warbler has been recorded as a scarce passage migrant in West Tonkin, East Tonkin and Cochinchina ( Robson 2008, Craik and Minh 2018, Hung et al. 2021 b). This is the first record of the species in South Annam. Manchurian Reed Warbler has recently been listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List 2024. Elsewhere, this species has been recorded breeding in China, Myanmar and Russia and wintering in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Peninsular and Thailand, with vagrant records in Korea ( IUCN 2024).

Diagnosis

Size: 13-14.5 cm. Adult: Crown and upperparts warm olive-brown with slighly more rufescent rump and uppertail-coverts, underparts whitish with warm buff breast-sides and flanks, whitish supercilium, narrow blackish line on crown-sides, long bill with pale lower mandible, white throat (Fig. 14 ).

Figures

Figure 14. The adult Acrocephalus tangorum (IEBR B. 637) was photographed in Thuy Trieu Lake, Khanh Hoa Province.