Great Reed-warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) | Details

Great Reed-warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

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Taxonomy

Taxonomic note
Acrocephalus arundinaceus and A. orientalis (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) were previously lumped as A. arundinaceus following AERC TAC (2003), Cramp et al. (1977-1994), Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) and Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2016	Least Concern
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	30 g

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	24,500,000 km²
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	22,200,000 km²
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	4.2 years	-	-	-

Population justification: In Europe, the breeding population is estimated to number 2,600,000-4,680,000 pairs, which equates to 5,190,000-9,360,000 mature individuals (BirdLife International 2015).

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be in decline owing to ongoing habitat destruction (del Hoyo et al. 2006), although in Europe, trends between 1982 and 2013 have been stable (EBCC 2015).

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Afghanistan	extant	vagrant
Albania	extant	native		yes
Algeria	extant	native		yes
Angola	extant	native			yes
Armenia	extant	native		yes
Austria	extant	native		yes
Azerbaijan	extant	native		yes
Bahrain	extant	native				yes
Belarus	extant	native		yes
Belgium	extant	native		yes
Benin	extant	native			yes
Bosnia and Herzegovina	extant	native		yes
Botswana	extant	native			yes
Bulgaria	extant	native		yes
Burkina Faso	extant	native			yes
Burundi	extant	native			yes
Cameroon	extant	native			yes
Central African Republic	extant	native			yes
Chad	extant	vagrant
China (mainland)	extant	native		yes
Congo	extant	native			yes
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native			yes
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	native			yes
Croatia	extant	native		yes
Czechia	extant	native		yes
Denmark	extant	native		yes		yes
Djibouti	extant	native				yes
Egypt	extant	native				yes
Equatorial Guinea	extant	native			yes
Eritrea	extant	native				yes
Estonia	extant	native		yes
Eswatini	extant	native			yes
Ethiopia	extant	native				yes
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	extant	vagrant
Finland	extant	native		yes
France	extant	native		yes		yes
Gabon	extant	native			yes
Gambia	extant	native			yes
Georgia	extant	native		yes
Germany	extant	native		yes
Ghana	extant	native			yes
Gibraltar (to UK)	extant	native		yes
Greece	extant	native		yes		yes
Guinea	extant	native			yes
Guinea-Bissau	extant	native			yes
Hungary	extant	native		yes
Iceland	extant	vagrant
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native		yes		yes
Iraq	extant	native		yes		yes
Ireland	extant	vagrant
Israel	extant	native		yes
Italy	extant	native		yes		yes
Jordan	extant	native				yes
Kazakhstan	extant	native		yes
Kenya	extant	native			yes
Kuwait	extant	native		yes		yes
Kyrgyzstan	extant	native		yes
Latvia	extant	native		yes
Lebanon	extant	native		yes		yes
Lesotho	extant	native			yes
Liberia	extant	native			yes
Libya	extant	native		yes
Liechtenstein	extant	vagrant
Lithuania	extant	native		yes
Luxembourg	extant	native		yes
Malawi	extant	native			yes
Mali	extant	native			yes
Malta	extant	native		yes
Mauritania	extant	native				yes
Moldova	extant	native		yes
Monaco	extant	native		yes
Mongolia	extant	native		yes
Montenegro	extant	native		yes
Morocco	extant	native		yes
Mozambique	extant	native			yes
Namibia	extant	native			yes
Netherlands	extant	native		yes
Niger	extant	native			yes
Nigeria	extant	native			yes
North Macedonia	extant	native		yes
Norway	extant	vagrant
Oman	extant	native			yes	yes
Pakistan	extant	vagrant				yes
Palestine	extant	native				yes
Poland	extant	native		yes
Portugal	extant	native		yes		yes
Qatar	extant	native				yes
Romania	extant	native		yes
Russia	extant	native		yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (European)	extant	native		yes
Rwanda	extant	native			yes
San Marino	extant	native		yes
São Tomé e Príncipe	extant	vagrant			yes
Saudi Arabia	extant	native				yes
Senegal	extant	native			yes
Serbia	extant	native		yes
Sierra Leone	extant	native			yes
Slovakia	extant	native		yes
Slovenia	extant	native		yes
Somalia	extant	vagrant				yes
South Africa	extant	native			yes
South Sudan	extant	native				yes
Spain	extant	native	yes
Sudan	extant	native			yes
Sweden	extant	native		yes
Switzerland	extant	native		yes
Syria	extant	native		yes		yes
Tajikistan	extant	native		yes
Tanzania	extant	native			yes
Togo	extant	native			yes
Tunisia	extant	native		yes
Türkiye	extant	native		yes
Turkmenistan	extant	native		yes
Uganda	extant	native			yes
Ukraine	extant	native		yes
United Arab Emirates	extant	native				yes
United Kingdom	extant	vagrant		yes
Uzbekistan	extant	native		yes
Western Sahara	extant	native		yes
Yemen	extant	native				yes
Zambia	extant	native			yes
Zimbabwe	extant	native			yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	non-breeding
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded	suitable	non-breeding
Savanna	Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Moist	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Saline, Brackish or Alkaline Marshes/Pools	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Saline, Brackish or Alkaline Marshes/Pools	suitable	non-breeding
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Utilisation

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	subsistence, national
Sport hunting/specimen collecting	subsistence, national

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Great Reed-warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/great-reed-warbler-acrocephalus-arundinaceus on 24/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 24/12/2024.