Birds · Not heard for 31 days.

Stylised portrait of a Little Grassbird

Little Grassbird

Poodytes gramineus

First heard here 20 Sept · last heard 6 Oct · 7 days in the last year · 9 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording dawn song, song, recorded in Australia

Khristos Nizamis, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 92% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The little grassbird is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. It is found in Australia and in West Papua, Indonesia. These sexually monomorphic birds are found in reed beds, rushes, lignum swamps and salt marshes of Southeastern Australia.

Read more on Wikipedia (Little grassbird)

Photograph of a Little Grassbird
Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 0 of them.
018 Oct: 0 detections9 Oct: 0 detections10 Oct: 0 detections11 Oct: 0 detections12 Oct: 0 detections13 Oct: 0 detections14 Oct: 0 detections15 Oct: 0 detections16 Oct: 0 detections17 Oct: 0 detections18 Oct: 0 detections19 Oct: 0 detections20 Oct: 0 detections21 Oct: 0 detections22 Oct: 0 detections23 Oct: 0 detections24 Oct: 0 detections25 Oct: 0 detections26 Oct: 0 detections27 Oct: 0 detections28 Oct: 0 detections29 Oct: 0 detections30 Oct: 0 detections31 Oct: 0 detections1 Nov: 0 detections2 Nov: 0 detections3 Nov: 0 detections4 Nov: 0 detections5 Nov: 0 detections6 Nov: 0 detections8 Oct23 Oct6 Nov018 Oct: 0 detections9 Oct: 0 detections10 Oct: 0 detections11 Oct: 0 detections12 Oct: 0 detections13 Oct: 0 detections14 Oct: 0 detections15 Oct: 0 detections16 Oct: 0 detections17 Oct: 0 detections18 Oct: 0 detections19 Oct: 0 detections20 Oct: 0 detections21 Oct: 0 detections22 Oct: 0 detections23 Oct: 0 detections24 Oct: 0 detections25 Oct: 0 detections26 Oct: 0 detections27 Oct: 0 detections28 Oct: 0 detections29 Oct: 0 detections30 Oct: 0 detections31 Oct: 0 detections1 Nov: 0 detections2 Nov: 0 detections3 Nov: 0 detections4 Nov: 0 detections5 Nov: 0 detections6 Nov: 0 detections8 Oct23 Oct6 Nov

Busiest day so far: Thursday 1 October, 3 detections between 8:53am and 10:46am.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 10am. From 7 days with hourly counts.

DayHeardFirstLastPeak confidence
6 Oct110:37am10:37am71%
4 Oct11:15pm1:15pm83%
2 Oct11:53pm1:53pm83%
1 Oct38:53am10:46am92%
30 Sept13:07pm3:07pm84%
24 Sept17:19am7:19am79%
20 Sept111:33am11:33am82%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.