Asian Desert Warbler

When to see the Asian Desert Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Asian Desert Warbler

The map shades 22 countries with regular records, and 11 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Norway, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Czechia, Denmark, France, Morocco, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Afghanistan.

About the Asian Desert Warbler

The Asian desert warbler is an Old World warbler which breeds in the deserts of central and western Asia and the extreme east of Europe, and migrating to similar habitats in southwestern Asia and the far northeast of Africa in winter. Until recently it was considered conspecific with the African desert warbler, but is now given specific status. The two are still each other's closest living relatives, and their relationships to other typical warblers are not clear. They may be fairly close to the common whitethroat; particularly, female whitethroats look much like a richly coloured Asian desert warbler. But it seems that all these three taxa are fairly basal members of the genus.

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Easily confused with

Menetries's WarblerCurruca mystaceaThe Menetries's warbler is 12 to 14 cm long with a wingspan of 15 to 19 cm and weighs about 9-11 grams. Rüppell's WarblerCurruca ruppeliIt is a typical Curruca warbler, similar in size but slimmer than the Sardinian warbler. Banded ParisomaCurruca boehmiThe banded parisoma, banded tit warbler or banded warbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Sylviidae.