Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax) | Photos and ID

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Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · cc-by

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 5 — Photo: Central Bank of Cyprus (Κεντρική Τραπέζα της Κύπρου) (banknote), European Central Bank (photograph) · Public domain

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Morgan Caygill, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Chris Kirby-Lambert, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Cyprus Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Cyprus Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Cyprus Israel Palestinian Territories Türkiye Egypt

Recorded as a rare visitor in Saudi Arabia.

About the Cyprus Warbler

The Cyprus warbler is a warbler species in the family Sylviidae which breeds only on Cyprus. This small passerine bird is a short-distance migrant, and winters in Israel, Jordan and Egypt.

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

Easily confused with

Moltoni's WarblerCurruca subalpinaMoltoni's warbler is similar to the Western subalpine warbler.

Layard's WarblerCurruca layardiLayard's warbler or Layard's tit-babbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Sylviidae.

Marmora's WarblerCurruca sardaThese are small, long tailed, large-headed birds, overall very similar to their close relatives in the Dartford warbler group.

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