Tahiti Reed Warbler

Tahiti Reed WarblerThis reed warbler occurs in French Polynesia. Most birds are pale yellow with mottling above, while a dark olive-brown morph also occurs. It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest and eats insects and other small animals as well as nectar.What does it look like?Most birds are pale yellow, mottled brownish-olive above; a dark morph is uniformly dark olive-brown.How does it live?This reed warbler occurs in French Polynesia. Most birds are pale yellow with mottling above, while a dark olive-brown morph also occurs. It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest and eats insects and other small animals as well as nectar.It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest in river valleys and on hillsides. Its diet includes insects, lizards, small fish, crayfish, snails, and nectar; it is believed to breed only in bamboo thickets.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.