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.
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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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What the Yellow-browed Warbler sounds like
Where the Yellow-browed Warbler lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, United States, Morocco, Luxembourg, Australia, Qatar.
When to see the Yellow-browed Warbler
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
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.
Dusky WarblerPhylloscopus fuscatusThe dusky warbler is a leaf warbler which breeds in the east Palearctic.
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