Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
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Grasshopper Warblers, Grassbirds, and Allies

Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler

Helopsaltes certhiola

LCLeast Concern
Family
Grasshopper Warblers, Grassbirds, and Allies (Locustellidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler, is an Old World warbler in the genus Helopsaltes. It breeds in the eastern Palearctic: from the Altai Mountains, Mongolia and Transbaikalia to northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and islands in the Sea of Okhotsk (Sakhalin and Kuril Islands). It is migratory, wintering from India eastward to Indonesia. It is a rare migrant in Sri Lanka.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.