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Cettiidae
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Cettiidae, the cettiid warblers, also called bush warblers, is a family of 32 species of small insectivorous songbirds in nine genera, found mainly across Asia, reaching into Oceania and Europe. The genus Cettia extends as far as western Europe, Horornis reaches across the Pacific to Fiji and Palau, and a single African species, Neumann's warbler, occurs outside Asia entirely. Cettiids are small, stubby birds in generally dull plumage; most have moderately long tails, though the stubtails and tesias have tiny tails that barely emerge past the tail coverts. Its own Wikipedia account calls it a variable group containing many aberrant birds, and its members typically live in scrubland, hunting by clambering through thick tangled growth.
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Cettiidae (Wikipedia)
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Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" assemblage.
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