Indian Grassbird

The Indian grassbird, also known as the rufous-rumped grassbird, is a passerine of the family Pellorneidae, formerly placed in the Old World warbler and babbler families. It occurs in tall emergent vegetation in or bordering freshwater swamps or along riverbanks in the lowlands of Bangladesh, northern India, Bhutan and Chitwan National Park of Nepal, with the Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal the western limit of its distribution. It is threatened by habitat loss (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account gives no description, measurements or breeding information. SoIB 2023 treats it as endemic to the Indian subcontinent and rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and local migrant of wetland with a Restricted range of about 8,660 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).