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What the Icterine Warbler sounds like
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A fairly big warbler with a large head, broad-based bill and long wings with a quite short square-ended tail. The upperparts are greyish-green and the underparts are uniformly light yellow. It has pale lores and a rather vague yellowish supercilium with a pale eye ring. Other distinguishing features include a panel on the folded wings formed by pale edges to the secondary feathers and tertiary feathers and the grey, sometimes bluish legs. Voice: The song is a fast nasal babbling incorporating mimicry of other species. The call is described as teck or tec, tec, tec.
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When to see the Icterine Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Icterine Warbler
The map shades 77 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 Morocco, Iceland, Algeria, Burundi, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein.
About the Icterine Warbler
The icterine warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais. It breeds in mainland Europe except the southwest, where it is replaced by its western counterpart, the melodious warbler. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Easily confused with
Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglottaThis is a medium-sized warbler, 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) in length, and similar to its eastern counterpart, the icterine warbler (Hippolais icterina).
Olive-tree WarblerHippolais olivetorumThe olive-tree warbler is a relatively large warbler species with a long, thick bill which has on obvious orange -yellow lower mandible.
Upcher's WarblerHippolais languidaUpcher's warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais.
Side by side: Icterine Warbler vs Melodious Warbler · Icterine Warbler vs Olive-tree Warbler
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