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WoodlandDomed nestTiny · 10 g
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The eastern crowned warbler is a medium-sized, rather robust and brightly coloured leaf warbler. It is dark olive-green above and white below with a strong head pattern of dark, grey lateral crown stripes with an indistinct yellowish median crown stripe. It also has a long yellowish-white supercilium with a dark stripe through the eye and dark lores and dusky yellow cheeks. It has a single pale wingbar. The square tail shows a slight fork. It has quite a strong, robust, pale-coloured bill and dark legs.
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When to see the Eastern Crowned 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 Eastern Crowned Warbler
The map shades 16 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 Kingdom, Mongolia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Pakistan.
About the Eastern Crowned Warbler
The eastern crowned warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It inhabits boreal and temperate forests in the east Palearctic.
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Easily confused with
Lemon-rumped WarblerPhylloscopus chloronotusThe Lemon-rumped Warbler is 9–10 cm long and weighs about 4.6–5.1 g.
Blyth's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus reguloidesBlyth's leaf warbler is a species of leaf warbler.
Buff-barred WarblerPhylloscopus pulcherThe buff-barred warbler is a species of leaf warbler.
Side by side: Eastern Crowned Warbler vs Lemon-rumped Warbler
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