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What the Wood Warbler sounds like
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The wood warbler is 11–12.5 cm long, and a typical leaf warbler in appearance, green above and white below with a lemon-yellow breast. It can be distinguished from similar species, like the chiffchaff P. collybita and the willow warbler, P. trochilus by its yellow supercilium, throat and upper breast, pale tertial edges, longer primary projection, and by its shorter but broader tail. It is a summer visitor to the United Kingdom, seen from April until August. It has declined there in recent years. Voice: It has two song types, often (but not always) given alternately; a high-pitched fluid metallic trill of increasing tempo lasting 2–3 seconds, and a series of 3 to 5 descending piping notes of lower pitch piüü-piüü-piüü. The contact call is a soft piping note, similar to the second song type, but shorter and given singly, piü.
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When to see the Wood 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 Wood Warbler
The map shades 90 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 United States, South Africa, Japan, India, Mauritania, Yemen, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Qatar.
About the Wood Warbler
The wood warbler is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asian Russia in the southern Ural Mountains. It is strongly migratory and the entire population winters in tropical Africa.
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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.
Greenish WarblerPhylloscopus trochiloidesThe greenish warbler is a widespread leaf warbler with a breeding range in northeastern Europe, and temperate to subtropical continental Asia.
Western Bonelli's WarblerPhylloscopus bonelliWestern Bonelli's warbler is a small passerine bird, found in forest and woodland.
Side by side: Common Chiffchaff vs Wood Warbler · Willow Warbler vs Wood Warbler · Wood Warbler vs Yellow-browed Warbler · Western Bonelli's Warbler vs Wood Warbler
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