Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) [XC415178]
by Hans Matheve from Les Br\u00e9viaires, Yvelines, \u00cele-de-France, France (song)
Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) [XC872202]
by Mats Olsson from Suedsee, Laupheim, Biberach, T\u00fcbingen, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany (song)
Nest
A substantial, loose cup of dry grass, in a low shrub, lined with grass and hair.
Eggs (Guide)
4 - 5; usually whitish ground color, with dark spots, but markings very variable.
Subspecies
Sister-species of Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla). Geographical variation slight and clinal, colour and size varying gradually from western Europe east to Siberia; woodwardi intergrades widely with nominate in eastern Europe. Proposed subspecies kreczmeri (from Poland) and pateffi (Bulgaria) considered insufficiently distinct, and are synonymized with nominate and woodwardi, respectively.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
borin (Boddaert, 1783) - Breeds Europe east to Finland, central Poland, western Hungary and central former Yugoslavia. Non-breeding sub-Saharan Africa.
woodwardi (Sharpe, 1877) - Breeds from central Poland, former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria east to central Siberia (upper R Yenisey). Non-breeding eastern and southern Africa.
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