Oriole Warbler

When to see the Oriole Warbler

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Oriole Warbler

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Niger, Mali.

About the Oriole Warbler

The oriole warbler is a large warbler in the family Cisticolidae, and the only member of the genus Hypergerus. This bird is a resident breeder in west Africa from southern Senegal to Cameroon.

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Easily confused with

Pectoral-patch CisticolaCisticola brunnescensAt 9–10 cm this is a small, streak-backed cisticola with short or medium tail, which may get longer in the breeding season. Whistling CisticolaCisticola lateralisThe whistling cisticola is a mid-sized bird that has a body length of 13–16 cm with a male weight of 14-21 grams, and female weight of 12-19 grams. Grey-backed TailorbirdOrthotomus derbianusThe gray-backed tailorbird is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.