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A wild Marsh Warbler × Sedge Warbler hybrid (Acrocephalus palustris × A. schoenobaenus) in Norway documented with molecular markers

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We present photographic and molecular evidence of a wild Marsh Warbler × Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris × A. schoenobaenus) hybrid that occurred over three breeding seasons (2007–2009) near Trondheim, Central Norway. The bird had the appearance of a Marsh Warbler but with some typical Sedge Warbler plumage traits. DNA analyses of a few plucked body feathers, using the COI barcode region (mtDNA) and conserved microsatellite loci, confirmed that the bird was a hybrid, with a Marsh Warbler mother and a Sedge Warbler father.

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  1. National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway

    Jan T. Lifjeld, Gunnhild Marthinsen & Arild Johnsen

  2. Norwegian Ornithological Society, Sandgata 30 B, 7012, Trondheim, Norway

    Magne Myklebust

  3. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK

    Deborah A. Dawson

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Lifjeld, J.T., Marthinsen, G., Myklebust, M. et al. A wild Marsh Warbler × Sedge Warbler hybrid (Acrocephalus palustris × A. schoenobaenus) in Norway documented with molecular markers. J Ornithol 151, 513–517 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-009-0469-0

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