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🦉 Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler

• Helopsaltes - ? To be honest, my etymological reference book does not contain such a name; it was obviously given to the bird quite recently.
• certhiola - diminutive of Certhia ((Greek) a small tree-crawling bird mentioned by Aristotle

This bird is rarely seen - it is a master of stealth, preferring dense thickets near water and behaves quieter than water, lower than grass. But if you are lucky, in the spring you will hear it, the song of the "singing cricket" (as we call it) is a series of ringing trills, similar to the chirping of a grasshopper, only more melodic. By the way, unlike its relative, the common grasshopper warbler, this one can not just "chirp" like the insect of the same name, but produce entire complex melodies.

They feed on insects, nimbly darting around in the coastal thickets, and build nests right on the ground, under the cover of grass, as all birds of this family do.
In general, this species is not numerous in my city. I meet them rarely, on the bank where bushes grow and on the opposite side of the river, where there are meadows.