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WARBLERS AND ALLIES
Family Sylviidae Species Phylloscopus borealis Family Sylviidae Species Phylloscopus trochiloides
Arctic Warbler Greenish Warbler
The Phylloscopus warblers, including the Willow This delicate, fast-moving warbler is grey-green above
Warbler (see p.333), are greenish, delicate, and quick- and silvery white below.The yellowish stripe over the
moving birds.The Arctic Warbler is rather thickset eye typically reaches the top of the bill (unlike Arctic
and solid with a stout bill (pale lower mandible with Warbler).A single narrow cream wingbar is usual, a
a dark tip), a thick, dark stripe through the eye and second short one occasional.Whiter flanks help to give
a long cream line above it, and a thin cream wingbar it a lighter look than the Arctic Warbler; but it may be
(sometimes two). Larger than the Greenish Warbler, confused with some Chiffchaffs with a pale wingbar.
it has longer wingtips, and pinker legs in autumn. OCCURRENCE Breeds in NE Europe; rare migrant in
OCCURRENCE Breeds in extreme N Scandinavia; late summer; occasional in late spring in W Europe.
very rare migrant/vagrant in autumn in NW Europe. VOICE Loud, sweet, disyllabic schu-weet or tshi-li;
VOICE Call hard, sharp dzit; song quick, trilling song.
low, fast trill. pale wingbar
thin wingbar
AUTUMN AUTUMN
long wingtips

Length 12–13cm (4 3 ⁄4 –5in) Wingspan 16–22cm (6 1 ⁄2 –9in) Length 10cm (4in) Wingspan 15–21cm (6–8 1 ⁄2in)

Family Sylviidae Species Phylloscopus inornatus Family Sylviidae Species Phylloscopus humei
Yellow-browed Warbler Hume’s Leaf Warbler
A very small, strongly patterned, beautiful warbler, the A very close and very similar relative of the Yellow-
Yellow-browed Warbler is clear grey-green or olive- browed Warbler, Hume’s is another tiny, but slightly
green above,whiter beneath,with black-centred,white- duller, warbler. It is dusky grey-green, whiter below,
tipped tertials and two yellowish cream wingbars; the with a long, cream stripe over the eye, an all-dark bill
upper one is thin and short, the lower longer and (no pale base), and two pale wingbars, one broad and
broad, edged dark green and black, catching the eye in obvious, the upper one short, weak, and often
the briefest view. It is an elusive, active little bird, often inconspicuous. Its tertials are dull with pale tips, less
hard to see well against the sky in leafy trees. blackish than on the Yellow-browed.
OCCURRENCE Rare but regular long cream OCCURRENCE Very rare vagrant in NW Europe,
migrant in NW Europe, in late stripe over eye from Asia. dark
autumn, from Asia. VOICE Loud, cheeping tsee- bill
VOICE Penetrating, oo, falling at end, or
sharp, rising sweeet flatter tsweeet.
or chi-weet.
AUTUMN
white
tips

two pale
wingbars
AUTUMN

Length 9–10cm (3 1 ⁄2 –4in) Wingspan 14–20cm (5 1 ⁄2 –8in) Length 9–10cm (3 1 ⁄2 –4in) Wingspan 14–20cm (5 1 ⁄2 –8in)
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