Spectacled Warbler

When to see the Spectacled Warbler

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

Where to see the Spectacled Warbler

The map shades 21 countries with regular records, and 7 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, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Gibraltar, Croatia.

About the Spectacled Warbler

The spectacled warbler is a species of passerine bird in the warbler genus Curruca in the family Sylviidae. The specific conspicillata is from Latin conspicillum, a place to look from, equivalent to "spectacled".

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Easily confused with

Western Orphean WarblerCurruca hortensisAt 15–16 centimetres (6–6+1⁄4 in) in length – somewhat larger than a blackcap – this is one of the largest species of typical warblers. Eastern Orphean WarblerCurruca crassirostrisThe eastern Orphean warbler is an Old World warbler of the genus Curruca. Chestnut-vented WarblerCurruca subcoeruleaThe chestnut-vented warbler is 14–15 cm long and weighs around 16 g.