Yellow-browed Warbler

Phylloscopus inornatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandDomed nestTiny · 7 g

What the Yellow-browed Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Yellow-browed Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jerome Fouert · Call, short calls · Sore, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Yellow-browed Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jerome Fouert · Call, short calls · Sore, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Yellow-browed Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jerome Fouert · Call, short calls · Sore, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

This 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. Like many other leaf warblers, it has overall greenish upperparts and white underparts. It also has prominent double wing bars formed by yellowish-white tips to the wing covert feathers (a long bar on the greater coverts and a short bar on the median coverts), yellow-margined tertial feathers, and long yellow supercilium. Some individuals also have a faint paler green central crown stripe though many do not show this.

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When to see the Yellow-browed Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-browed Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 69 countries with regular records, and 6 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 Canada, United States, Morocco, Luxembourg, Australia, Qatar.

About the Yellow-browed Warbler

The yellow-browed warbler is a leaf warbler which breeds in the east Palearctic. This warbler is strongly migratory and winters mainly in tropical South Asia and South-east Asia, but also in small numbers in western Europe. Like the rest of Phylloscopidae, it was formerly included in the Old World warbler assemblage.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Side by side: Common Chiffchaff vs Yellow-browed Warbler · Willow Warbler vs Yellow-browed Warbler · Wood Warbler vs Yellow-browed Warbler · Western Bonelli's Warbler vs Yellow-browed Warbler

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