Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes) | Photos and ID

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Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 1 — Photo: James M. Maley · CC BY 4.0

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 2 — Photo: James M. Maley · CC BY 4.0

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 3 — Photo: Andrew Bazdyrev · CC BY 4.0

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 4 — Photo: Andrew Bazdyrev · CC BY 4.0

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 5 — Photo: Антон Лабачоў · CC BY 4.0

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 8 — Photo: Andrew Bazdyrev · CC BY 4.0

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Kalvin Chan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Михаил Голомысов, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

It is 12 cm in length with brownish upperparts and a contrasting greyish-brown crown and nape. The whitish supercilium contrasts strongly, not reaching the forehead but extending well behind the eyes. Its eyeline is dark brown and wider behind the eye. Cheeks mottled pale brown and throat whitish. White undertail coverts contrast with paler olive-brown rump and uppertail coverts, lacks greenish tinge. Breast and belly whitish, washed pale brown. Voice: Song, tiriririririririri repeating.

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When to see the Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 15 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.

Thailand China Cambodia Taiwan Hong Kong SAR China South Korea Vietnam Russia Macao SAR China Laos Myanmar (Burma) Singapore Japan Malaysia North Korea

Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, India.

About the Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

The pale-legged leaf warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1860. It is found in Manchuria; it winters in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

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Easily confused with

Eastern Bonelli's WarblerPhylloscopus orientalisThe eastern Bonelli's warbler, sometimes known as the Balkan warbler, is a warbler in the leaf warbler genus Phylloscopus.

Sulphur-bellied WarblerPhylloscopus griseolusThe sulphur-bellied warbler is a species of leaf-warbler found in the Palearctic region.

Radde's WarblerPhylloscopus schwarziThis is a warbler similar in size to a willow warbler.

Side by side: Pale-legged Leaf Warbler vs Radde's Warbler

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