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What the Western Bonelli's Warbler sounds like



ID tip
Western Bonelli's warbler is a small passerine bird, found in forest and woodland. Four to six eggs are laid in a nest on the ground. The eggs are white with reddish-brown markings and are laid in clutches of 3-5 eggs. The incubation period is around 14 days long, and the chicks fledge after 10-14 days. Cuckoo nest predation and brood parasitism are major hazards to the breeding success of western Bonelli's warblers. Like most warblers, western Bonelli's warbler is insectivorous. The adult has a plain grey-green back, green-toned rump and wings and whitish underparts.
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When to see the Western Bonelli's Warbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Western Bonelli's Warbler
The map shades 33 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 Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Israel, Czechia, Croatia, Mali.
About the Western Bonelli's Warbler
The western Bonelli's warbler is a warbler in the leaf warbler genus Phylloscopus. It was formerly regarded as the western subspecies of a wider "Bonelli's warbler" species, but as a result of modern taxonomic developments, they are now usually considered to be two species:Western Bonelli's warbler, Phylloscopus bonelli, which breeds in southwest Europe and north Africa Eastern Bonelli's warbler, Phylloscopus orientalis, which breeds in southeast Europe and Asia Minor
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Easily confused with
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatusThis is one of the smaller Old World warblers, at 9.5–11 cm long and weighing 4–9 g distinctly smaller than a chiffchaff but slightly larger than Pallas's leaf warbler.
Dusky WarblerPhylloscopus fuscatusThe dusky warbler is a leaf warbler which breeds in the east Palearctic.
Side by side: Western Bonelli's Warbler vs Wood Warbler · Western Bonelli's Warbler vs Yellow-browed Warbler
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