Grasshopper warbler, adult

Grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia)

 

Meaning behind the name:

 

Locustella = Latin referring to a form of Grasshopper (named by it's Grasshopper type reeling song)

naevia = Latin meaning "Spotted, marked, blemish" (refers to it's spotted underparts)

 

The English name was formerly "Titlark" and saying that "the bird sings like a Grasshopper" in 1678 before it was adapted to "Grasshopper lark" in 1768 and extended this further with "warbler" in 1773-1776 till finally as "Grasshopper warbler" 1783.

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