Savi's Warbler

Locustella luscinioides

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWetlandCup nestTiny · 14 g

What the Savi's Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Savi's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Song · Marcey-les-Grèves, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Savi's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Song · Genêts, Manche, Normandy, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Savi's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Genêts, Manche, Normandy, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The upper-parts of Savi's warbler are a uniform dark reddish-brown, sometimes with a slight greenish tinge. It has indistinct buff eye-stripes, dark lores and pale brown ear-coverts. The brown beak is slender and the irises are also brown. The chin, throat and belly are whitish-buff and the rest of the underparts sandy brown. In the breeding season, both upper-parts and underparts are slightly paler. The legs are brown. The bird is around 14 cm (5.5 in) long. The song is a trill very similar to that of the grasshopper warbler but slightly lower pitched and less prolonged.

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When to see the Savi'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 Savi's Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 64 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 United Kingdom, Mauritania.

About the Savi's Warbler

Savi's warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the genus Locustella. It breeds in Europe and the western Palearctic. It is migratory, wintering in northern and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Easily confused with

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