Locustella davidi (La Touche, 1923)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Baikal Bush Warbler (Locustella davidi), Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Open encyclopedia reference
The Baikal bush warbler (Locustella davidi), also known as Baikal grasshopper-warbler or David's bush warbler, is a migratory species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.
It breeds from the southern part of the Russian Far East (including the Lake Baikal region) to northeast China (southern Heilongjiang south to southern Hebei) and North Korea. It winters from southern China south to northern Thailand.
Its breeding habitat is taiga forests, especially in clearings or at streams.
Wikipedia contributors, Baikal bush warbler; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T14:01:13.138070+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Locustella davidi (La Touche, 1923)
- Name authority
- (La Touche, 1923)
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Locustellidae
- Genus
- Locustella
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyLocustellidae Bonaparte, 1875
- genusLocustella Kaup, 1829
- speciesLocustella davidi (La Touche, 1923)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Locustella. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Locustella montis (Hartert, 1896) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides (Savi, 1824) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella alishanensis (Rasmussen, Round, Dickinson & Rozendaal, 2000) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pallas's Grasshopper WarblerLocustella certhiola (Pallas, 1811) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella seebohmi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella luteoventris (Hodgson, 1845) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella amnicola Stepanyan, 1972 | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella accentor (Sharpe, 1888) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Middendorff's Grasshopper WarblerLocustella ochotensis (Middendorff, 1853) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella tacsanowskia Swinhoe, 1871 | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella major (W. E. Brooks, 1871) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Locustella castanea (Büttikofer, 1893) | LocustellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Bradypterus davidi (La Touche, 1923) (La Touche, 1923) | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=916896 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:6QLK9. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.