Timalia platyura The broad-tailed grassbird (Schoenicola platyurus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.

It is found only on the higher altitude grassy hills where it usually skulks, except during the breeding season when males fly up into the air to sing in their display.

The uniform brown upperparts with a broad, round-tipped and long graduated tail are distinctive features of this bird.

[3][10][11][12] Molecular phylogeny studies place the genus in the warbler subfamily Megalurinae (along with Megalurus, Chaetornis and Graminicola).

[16] The broad-tailed grassbird is restricted to grassy moist highlands, principally in the Western Ghats of southern India mainly south of Karnataka but with some records from Pune, Lonavala and Nasik.

[17] A specimen was collected by S. A. Hussain at Point Calimere that suggests that the bird may be involved in local movements or migrations, possibly into Sri Lanka.