Fan-tailed Grassbird

Catriscus brevirostris (Sundevall, 1850)

16 gWeight

The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler (Catriscus brevirostris) is an African species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.

Busiest months: November · Most records: Kenya, Uganda, South Africa

Least Concern

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: November · Most records: Kenya, Uganda, South Africa

Fan-tailed Grassbird has been recorded at 80 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 14 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Maasai Mara NR – Mara TriangleKenya75 records
Mutinondo WildernessZambia58 records
Sani Pass (ZA) – low elevationSouth Africa54 records

More places

Queen Elizabeth II NPUganda36 records
Luwawa Forest LodgeMalawi30 records
Arusha NPTanzania27 records
Nairobi NPKenya27 records
Queen Elizabeth NP – Ishasha RdUganda19 records
Mt. Moco Reserve IBAAngola16 records
Bakossi Mountains – Kodmin ForestCameroon16 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Kenya Uganda South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Malawi Tanzania Cameroon

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler (Catriscus brevirostris) is an African species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. The species is closely related to the broad-tailed grassbird of India, and is sometimes treated as the same species, although a 2018 study found that it and the broad-tailed grassbird were not closely related, with the Indian species being a sister of Chaetornis striata.

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