Hume's Leaf Warbler

Phylloscopus humei

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestTiny · 6 g

What the Hume's Leaf Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Hume's Leaf Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Call · Arrondissement de Saint-Malo (near Cancale), Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Hume's Leaf Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Owen Camus · Call · Charruyer Park of La Rochelle (near La Rochelle), Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Hume's Leaf Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Tim Rave · Call · Borken, Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Hume's leaf warbler is one of the smallest "Old World warblers". Like most other leaf warblers, it has greenish upperparts and off-white underparts. With its long supercilium, crown stripe and yellow-margined tertial remiges, it is very similar to the yellow-browed warbler (P. inornatus). However, it has only one prominent light wing bar, just a faint vestige of the second shorter wing bar, and overall duller colours. It also has a dark lower mandible and legs. Its song is buzzing and high-pitched. The best distinction from the yellow-browed warbler is the more disyllabic call.

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When to see the Hume's Leaf Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Hume's Leaf Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 46 countries with regular records, and 12 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 Finland, Ireland, Morocco, Iceland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Turkmenistan, Austria.

About the Hume's Leaf Warbler

Hume's leaf warbler or Hume's warbler is a small leaf warbler which breeds in the mountains of inner Asia. This warbler is migratory and winters mainly in India.

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

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