The large-billed warbler [1] ( Latin Acrocephalus orinus ) is a species of songbird [2] from the warbler family. It gained fame as “the most unknown bird in the world” [3] , since until the 2000s it was known for the only specimen obtained in 1867 in India . Re-discovered in the wild in 2006 in Thailand . At the same time, the Thai bird was released, and DNA was taken from feathers for its identification.
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Passerida |
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Acrocephalus orinus Oberholser , 1905 |
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Not enough data IUCN Data Deficient : 22729551 |
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The feathers are olive brown and pale cream on the underside of the body. Body length - about 130 mm, tail - 58 mm, wing - 61 mm, beak - 20 mm.
The first copy, long remaining the only one, was obtained in 1867 by Allan Octavian Hume .
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In 2006, large-billed reed was rediscovered in Thailand. The bird was caught on March 27 by ornithologist Philip Round, it was ringed and two feathers were removed to compare DNA with a copy of 1867 [4] [5] .
A 2011 study of Russian ornithologists ( Pavel Kvartalnov and others) in 2011 showed that the species was previously confused in museum collections with A. dumetorum and that birds can breed in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan , eastern Uzbekistan and southeastern Kazakhstan [6] .
In 2011, nests were found in the Panj River Valley in Tajikistan [7] .
