Barred Warbler

Curruca nisoria

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesUrbanSmall · 29 g

What the Barred Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Barred Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Call, song · Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Barred Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Song · Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Barred Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Song · Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Barred Warbler

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

Where to see the Barred Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 71 countries with regular records, and 7 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 Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, India, Luxembourg, Sudan, Malta.

About the Barred Warbler

The barred warbler is a species of bird in the warbler family Sylviidae which breeds across temperate regions of central and eastern Europe and western and central Asia. This passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical eastern Africa.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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