Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Taiwan Bush Warbler
Locustella alishanensis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A voice in the dwarf bamboo, almost never a bird. Heard ringing across Taiwan's alpine slopes, it gives up its silhouette only for the patient.
- Population
- Taiwan endemic; common in suitable habitat but extremely skulking
- Habitat
- Taiwan endemic; high-elevation dwarf bamboo, alpine shrub and grassy edges, mostly above 2,000 m
- Diet
- small insects and spiders
- Size
- 0.13 m
- Wingspan
- 0.17 m
