Upcher's Warbler

When to see the Upcher'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 Upcher's Warbler

The map shades 27 countries with regular records, and 3 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 South Africa, Netherlands, Bulgaria.

About the Upcher's Warbler

Upcher's warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais. It breeds in an area from Turkey south and east to Pakistan. It is migratory, wintering in eastern Africa, from Eritrea and Somalia south to Tanzania.

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Easily confused with

Olive-tree WarblerHippolais olivetorumThe olive-tree warbler is a relatively large warbler species with a long, thick bill which has on obvious orange -yellow lower mandible. Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglottaThis is a medium-sized warbler, 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) in length, and similar to its eastern counterpart, the icterine warbler (Hippolais icterina). Icterine WarblerHippolais icterinaA fairly big warbler with a large head, broad-based bill and long wings with a quite short square-ended tail.