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Moltoni's Warbler

Curruca subalpina

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesShrubland10 g
Moltoni's Warbler (Curruca subalpina), photo 1
Photo: Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0

What the Moltoni's Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Moltoni's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gobi · Bologna, Città Metropolitana di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Moltoni's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gobi · Uncertain · Bologna, Città Metropolitana di Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Moltoni's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Tanguy Loïs · Call, song · Arrondissement de Calvi (near Moncale), Haute-Corse, Corsica, France · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Moltoni's warbler is similar to the Western subalpine warbler. In the males the underparts in Moltoni's warbler are salmon pink while that of the Western subalpine warbler are orange. The females and juveniles are almost identical to those of the Western subalpine warbler. The main difference is vocalisations with the song of Moltoni's warbler being described as being faster paced and higher pitched than that of Western subalpine warbler, making a sound that is a rapid succession of insect-like notes, with the normal dry "trill zerr" call included in the song.

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When to see the Moltoni's 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 Moltoni's Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 4 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.

France Italy Spain Sweden Algeria Senegal Mauritania Tunisia Malta Faroe Islands

Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Morocco, Switzerland, Germany.

About the Moltoni's Warbler

Moltoni's warbler is a small bird species belonging to the family Sylviidae, often referred to as the typical warblers. This species is native to Italy and islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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

Easily confused with

Cyprus Warbler (Curruca melanothorax) Cyprus WarblerCurruca melanothoraxThe Cyprus warbler is a warbler species in the family Sylviidae which breeds only on Cyprus. Layard's Warbler (Curruca layardi) Layard's WarblerCurruca layardiLayard's warbler or Layard's tit-babbler, is a species of Old World warbler in the family Sylviidae. Marmora's Warbler (Curruca sarda) Marmora's WarblerCurruca sardaThese are small, long tailed, large-headed birds, overall very similar to their close relatives in the Dartford warbler group.

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