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BirdPix:   15213
Province:   Mpumalanga
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2530AC
Observer:   Kennedy D.
Date of record:   2013-11-18
Number of photos:   1
Notes:   Bird in left foreground
Last updated:   2023-03-14 15:18:12
Sp. code:   911
Species name:   Acrocephalus scirpaceus
Common name:   Common Reed Warbler -- Hermanse Rietsanger
Family:   Sylviidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Uncertain - opinions, please
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix-15213
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 15213 - photo: 1

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Colin Summersgill
Comment:   Not too sure of TL, some sort of warbler? BR is a female African Stonechat.
Date:   2015-01-27 07:45:14
Species name:  
Species code:   0
Comment number:   2
By:   Lisl van Deventer
Comment:   Lack of pale eye-brow, black stripe through head, narrow tail and sitting in open
Date:   2017-07-13 20:01:01
Species name:   Acrocephalus baeticatus -- African (African Marsh-Warbler) Reed-Warbler; Kleinrietsanger
Species code:   606
Comment number:   3
By:   Lisl van Deventer
Comment:   Acrocephalus baeticatus (African Reed-Warbler or African Marsh-Warbler) merged with Acrocephalus scirpaceus (Common Reed Warbler)
Date:   2023-03-14 15:18:12
Species name:   Acrocephalus scirpaceus -- Common Reed Warbler; Hermanse Rietsanger
Species code:   911

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