Asian Stubtail

About the Asian Stubtail

The Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps) is a bird in the family Cettiidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. It breeds in Northeast Asia and Japan. Its natural habitat is temperate forest. It is a small bird with a short tail. Males and females are similar in color, as well as juveniles after fledging; they are brown all over with a paler underpart and a darker brown crest and eyeline.

Breeding Asian stubtails reside in portions of northeastern Asia; non-breeding areas include Hainan Taiwan, southeastern China and Indochina, preferring a habitat of undergrowth in evergreen broadleaf or lowland coniferous forest.

Breeding males produce a high-pitched shee-shee-shee-shee or cee-cee-cee, while both males and females make a call similar to chott-chott-chott. Wikipedia →