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What the Booted Warbler sounds like
ID tip
The booted warbler is a small species of warbler, similar in size to a common chiffchaff. It has an undistinguished plumage which is plain greyish brown on the upperparts and paler on the underparts. There is a clear, pale supercilium and a short bill with a dark tip. The jizz shown is of a short-winged rather pot-bellied warbler with a square-tipped tail. This species and Sykes's warbler are challenging to identify.
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When to see the Booted Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Booted Warbler
The map shades 35 countries with regular records, and 17 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 Belgium, Norway, Germany, Spain, France, Taiwan, Denmark, Portugal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Ireland, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czechia, Luxembourg.
About the Booted Warbler
The booted warbler is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Acrocephalidae, the reed and tree warblers. This species breeds in Eastern Europe and western Asia, wintering in south Asia. it is a regular vagrant to Western Europe.
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Easily confused with
Eastern Olivaceous WarblerIduna pallidaIt is a medium-sized warbler, more like a very pale reed warbler than its relative the melodious warbler.
Sykes's WarblerIduna ramaIt is a small warbler, especially compared to others in their genus.
African Yellow WarblerIduna natalensisThe African yellow warbler is a medium-sized warbler in which the whole of the upperparts and tail are yellowish-brown, with a slightly browner crown and yellower rump.
Side by side: Booted Warbler vs Eastern Olivaceous Warbler · Booted Warbler vs Sykes's Warbler · African Yellow Warbler vs Booted Warbler
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