The friendly bush warbler (''Locustella accentor''), also known as the Kinabalu friendly warbler, is a species of
Old World warbler
The Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. They are not closely related to the New World warblers. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxo ...
in the family
Locustellidae
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 war ...
. It is endemic to the island of
Borneo
Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...
.
References
friendly bush warbler
Birds of East Malaysia
Endemic birds of Malaysia
Endemic birds of Borneo
friendly bush warbler
Taxa named by Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fauna of the Borneo montane rain forests
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