Pallas's Leaf Warbler

What the Pallas's Leaf Warbler sounds like

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Song · Beauvoir, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Pallas'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 October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pallas's Leaf Warbler

The map shades 37 countries with regular records, and 9 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 Portugal, Ireland, India, Czechia, United States, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Slovenia, Azerbaijan.

About the Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Pallas's leaf warbler or Pallas's warbler is a bird that breeds in mountain forests from southern Siberia east to northern Mongolia and northeast China. It is named after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first formally described it. This leaf warbler is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in south China and adjacent areas of southeast Asia, although in recent decades increasing numbers have been found in Europe in autumn.

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Easily confused with

Iberian ChiffchaffPhylloscopus ibericusThe Iberian chiffchaff is told apart from the common chiffchaff mainly on its song but it also has plumage differences such as the upperparts being a cleaner green colour with no brown hue. Grey-hooded WarblerPhylloscopus xanthoschistosThe grey-hooded warbler is a species of leaf warbler. Large-billed Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus magnirostrisThe large-billed leaf warbler is a species of migratory leaf warbler found in Asia.

Side by side: Iberian Chiffchaff vs Pallas's Leaf Warbler