Acrocephalus arundinaceus   Great Reed Warbler  Grootrietsanger
Great Reed Warbler
Modimolle, Dec 2021

A non-breeding summer visitor from the Palearctic, present between Dec and Mar. Sparsely recorded across the Waterberg and in the surrounding thorn savanna (recorded in 5% of the Waterberg pentads); a skulking, solitary species, it frequents reedbeds and the lower layers in woody thickets, especially along drainage lines, its presence mostly detected by hearing its sustained grating song.
Great Reed Warbler Waterberg distribution
Great Reed Warbler
Lephalale, Mar 2017
Great Reed Warbler
Die Oog, Mar 2017


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