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ForestDomed nestTiny · 8 g
What the Common Chiffchaff sounds like
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The common chiffchaff is a small, dumpy, 10–12 centimetres (3.9–4.7 inches) long leaf warbler. The male weighs 7–8 grammes (0.28–0.31 oz), and the female 6–7 grammes (0.25–0.28 oz). The spring adult of the western nominate subspecies P. c. collybita has brown-washed dull green upperparts, off-white underparts becoming yellowish on the flanks, and a short whitish supercilium. It has dark legs, a fine dark bill, and short primary projection (extension of the flight feathers beyond the folded wing).
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When to see the Common Chiffchaff
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Common Chiffchaff
The map shades 110 countries with regular records, and 6 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 United States, Taiwan, Chad, Congo - Kinshasa, Tanzania, Uganda.
About the Common Chiffchaff
The common chiffchaff, or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and the Palearctic.
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Easily confused with
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusThe willow warbler is a typical leaf warbler in appearance, 11–12.5 cm (4.3–4.9 in) long and 7–15 g (0.25–0.53 oz) weight.
Wood WarblerPhylloscopus sibilatrixThe wood warbler is 11–12.5 cm long, and a typical leaf warbler in appearance, green above and white below with a lemon-yellow breast.
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatusThis is one of the smaller Old World warblers, at 9.5–11 cm long and weighing 4–9 g distinctly smaller than a chiffchaff but slightly larger than Pallas's leaf warbler.
Side by side: Common Chiffchaff vs Willow Warbler · Common Chiffchaff vs Wood Warbler · Common Chiffchaff vs Yellow-browed Warbler
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