Eastern Subalpine Warbler

When to see the Eastern Subalpine Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Eastern Subalpine Warbler

The map shades 28 countries with regular records, and 13 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 France, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Portugal, Netherlands, Morocco, Denmark, Iceland, Serbia, Ukraine, Czechia, San Marino.

About the Eastern Subalpine Warbler

The eastern subalpine warbler is a small Sylviidae warbler which breeds in the southernmost areas of Europe. It was first described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas in 1764 and given the binomial name Motacilla cantillans. The specific cantillans is Latin for "warbling" from canere, "to sing".

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Easily confused with

Chestnut-vented WarblerCurruca subcoeruleaThe chestnut-vented warbler is 14–15 cm long and weighs around 16 g. Asian Desert WarblerCurruca nanaThe Asian desert warbler is an Old World warbler which breeds in the deserts of central and western Asia and the extreme east of Europe, and migrating to similar habitats in southwestern Asia and the far northeast of Africa in winter. Menetries's WarblerCurruca mystaceaThe Menetries's warbler is 12 to 14 cm long with a wingspan of 15 to 19 cm and weighs about 9-11 grams.