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What the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler sounds like
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It is a medium-sized warbler, more like a very pale reed warbler than its relative the melodious warbler. The adult has a plain pale brown back and whitish underparts. The bill is strong and pointed and the legs grey. The sexes are identical, as with most warblers, but young birds are more buff on the belly. It has a characteristic downward tail flick. The western olivaceous warbler differs from this species in being larger and having a browner tinge to the upperparts; it also has a larger bill.
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When to see the Eastern Olivaceous 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 Olivaceous Warbler
The map shades 67 countries with regular records, and 10 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 Norway, France, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Guinea, Slovenia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark.
About the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
The eastern olivaceous warbler, known simply as the olivaceous warbler when its western relative is referred to as the 'isabelline warbler', is a small passerine bird with drab plumage tones, that is native to the Old World. For the most part it breeds in southeastern Europe, the Middle East and adjacent western Asia, and winters in the northern Afrotropics.
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Easily confused with
Booted WarblerIduna caligataThe booted warbler is a small species of warbler, similar in size to a common chiffchaff.
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 · Eastern Olivaceous Warbler vs Sykes's Warbler · African Yellow Warbler vs Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
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