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title: "Tawny Grassbird"
description: "Cincloramphus timoriensis — Birds. The tawny grassbird (Cincloramphus timoriensis) is a large songbird that is a member of the family Locustellidae commonly found in grassland and reedbed habitats."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/tawny-grassbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tawny Grassbird

> Cincloramphus timoriensis — Birds. The tawny grassbird (Cincloramphus timoriensis) is a large songbird that is a member of the family Locustellidae commonly found in grassland and reedbed habitats.

- Scientific name: *Cincloramphus timoriensis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Fields & meadows)
- iNaturalist observations: 1329
- iNaturalist taxon: [980142](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/980142)

## Names

- en: Tawny Grassbird
- de: Rostkopf-Schilfsteiger
- es: Yerbera Leonada
- fr: Mégalure fauve

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1174), PH (80), TL (7), ID (5)

## Summary

The tawny grassbird (Cincloramphus timoriensis) is a large songbird that is a member of the family Locustellidae commonly found in grassland and reedbed habitats. It is streaked above and has a distinctive rich brown cap. Its underside is paler and it has a long graduated tail. They call often with "loud, grumpy churring calls and a longer call that starts tick-tick-tick-tick and ends with an explosive descending trill".
The tawny grassbird has 10 identified sub-species found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawny_grassbird

## Photo

![Tawny Grassbird](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tawny-grassbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/262772515

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tawny-grassbird?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).