Paddyfield Warbler

The paddyfield warbler is 12–14 centimetres long and weighs 7–14 grams. It is smaller than the reed warbler and unstreaked, with a conspicuous, evenly broad, long pale supercilium often bordered darkly. The bill is shorter than the reed warbler's, with a dark tip to the straw-yellow lower mandible, and the tail is longer, slightly rounded and usually paler brown. The rump is mostly warm rusty yellow-brown and the primary projection is short. The nape is pale and the rest of the upperparts warm orange-brown to red-brown in fresh plumage, dull olive-brown when worn. (German Wikipedia, general species account)

It occurs as a summer visitor in central Eurasia and winters in southern Asia. Its breeding habitat is open country with low reed, also cattail and tamarisk, by preference near lakes and river valleys. Outside the breeding range it needs wet, densely covered ground such as rice and sugarcane fields. The specific epithet comes from the Latin words for field and to inhabit. (German Wikipedia, general species account)