Acrocephalus orientalis
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1847) · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Acrocephalus orientalis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility65 671 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI17 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics17 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Der Chinarohrsänger (Acrocephalus orientalis) ist ein Singvogel aus der Gattung der Rohrsänger (Acrocephalus) und der Familie der Rohrsängerartigen (Acrocephalidae).Chinarohrsänger, in Avibase – Die Weltvogel-Datenbank. Abgerufen am . Die Art kommt als Sommervogel in Ostasien vor von der Mongolei und Südosten Russlands bis China, Korea, Sachalin und Japan. Sie überwintert in Südostasien bis Großen Sundainseln, Philippinen, auf den Wallacea-Inseln, wie zum Beispiel Atauro. Das Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst hauptsächlich Schilfgebiete an Seen, Sümpfe entlang der Küsten, Flussmündungen, entlang von Flüssen und Gräben, auch hohes Gras und Gebüsch. Bevorzugt wird Tiefland bis 1000 m Höhe.A. Dyrcz und E. De Juana: Oriental Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis), version 1.0. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie und E. de Juana (Herausgeber): Birds of the World. 2020, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. Oriental Reed Warbler Warbler Das Artepitheton bezieht sich auf das Verbreitungsgebiet. Früher wurde die Art als konspezifisch mit dem Drosselrohrsänger (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) angesehen.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology11
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment4
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Acrocephalus orientalis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type65 671 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions18 of 25 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| NSMKlocation not on record | 296 |
| Cambridge, US | 42 |
| Seattle, US | 29 |
| Berkeley, US | 25 |
| Australian National Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 22 |
| US | 12 |
| SNSDlocation not on record | 11 |
| Philadelphia, US | 10 |
| 10 | |
| Edmonton, CA | 9 |
| New Haven, US | 9 |
| Washington, US | 7 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 5 |
| Geneva, CH | 4 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 4 |
| Gyeryonsan Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Chicago, US | 3 |
| Natick, US | 2 |
| Yamashina Institute for Ornithologylocation not on record | 2 |
| Toronto, CA | 2 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Acrocephalus orientalis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.