Great Reed Warbler

About this species

This species has 440,696 occurrence records from 133 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (24.2%), Sweden (15.1%), France (9.3%), Poland (7.8%) and the Netherlands (5.4%); together they account for 61.9% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.2% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Acrocephalus arundinaceus combines the genus name Acrocephalus with the species epithet arundinaceus. The Warbla app catalog lists 35 species of the genus Acrocephalus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Acrocephalus scirpaceus, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus and Acrocephalus palustris.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 51 species of the family Acrocephalidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Acrocephalus scirpaceus. Its record count is 2.7 times the family average (166,212). The family Acrocephalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Acrocephalidae

• Eurasian Reed Warbler
• Sedge warbler
• Marsh Warbler
• Blyth’s Reed Warbler
• Australian Reed Warbler

Credits & data sources

• Wikidata
• GBIF.org