Ranomafana, Madagascar
November 2016

In 1992 Brett Whitney and Jan Pierson on a field trip in Madagascar heard an unfamiliar song without seeing the bird. Subsequently it responded to playback to reveal a rather drab warbler-like bird. It is endemic to the east of Madagascar where it is found in evergreen humid forest with a propensity for bamboo from 900 to 2,100 metres. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.