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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Pallas's leaf warbler is one of the smallest warblers, with a large head and short tail. At 9–10 centimetres (3.5–3.9 in) long and 4–7 grams (0.14–0.25 oz) in weight, it is slightly smaller than a yellow-browed warbler and barely any larger than a goldcrest. It has greenish upperparts and white underparts, but is very striking, with prominent pale yellow double wingbars on the wing covert feathers, bold yellow supercilia and central crown stripe, and a lemon-yellow rump.
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What the Pallas's Leaf Warbler sounds like
Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in Portugal, India, Czechia, United States, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Slovenia, Azerbaijan.
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
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.
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