Western Bonelli's Warbler

Phylloscopus bonelli

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 9 g

What the Western Bonelli's Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Western Bonelli's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Camille Vacher · Song · Arrondissement de Briançon (near Villar-d'Arêne), Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Western Bonelli's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Camille Vacher · Uncertain · Arrondissement de Nyons (near Rémuzat), Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Western Bonelli's Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Camille Vacher · Song · Arrondissement d'Apt (near Maubec), Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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

Regular rangeRare visitor

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

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