Japanese bush warbler
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The Japanese bush warbler also makes calls that signal alarm.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese bush warbler
- Scientific name
- Horornis diphone
- Japanese name
- ウグイス
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cettiidae
- Genus
- Horornis
It lives in woods from the lowlands to the mountains, preferring places with bamboo grass on the ground. It mainly eats insects and spiders.
People often imagine it as bright green, but its whole body is actually a greenish brown.
Its 'hoh-hokekyo' song is the male calling to females in the breeding season. At other times it calls 'chat, chat'.
How the Japanese bush warbler lives
It moves actively through thickets while eating insects. From Honshu to Kyushu, it moves to lower or warmer areas in winter. In winter, it sometimes appears in hedges in towns.
島根県環境省 ecojinBasic data
- Size
- Total length: 14–15 cm
- Diet
- Insects and spiders
Where the Japanese bush warbler has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ウグイス
- 简体中文
- 日本树莺
- 繁體中文
- 日本樹鶯
- 한국어
- 섬휘파람새
- Español
- Cetia Japonés
- Français
- Bouscarle chanteuse
- Deutsch
- Japanseidensänger
- Português (Brasil)
- Cétia-japonesa
- Italiano
- Usignolo dei cespugli giapponese
- Tiếng Việt
- Chích bụi Nhật Bản
- Русский
- Бамбуковая широкохвостка
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 環境省 ecojin — いきものクイズ「外来種はどっち？」（ウグイス）Checked: 2026-11-03
- 島根県 — 法吉の鳥類（自然観察モデルコース 松江市法吉地区）Checked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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Japanese bush warbler and Warbling white-eye: how to tell them apart
Japanese bush warblers have a pale eyebrow stripe, while warbling white-eyes have a white ring around each eye.
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