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 LC    Wood Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Phylloscopus sibilatrix

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Wood Warbler, Wood Wren

Family
Phylloscopidae (Leaf-warblers)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bechstein, 1793)

Habitat
Temperate forest.

Range (Guide)
Albania (B), Algeria, Andorra (B), Armenia (B), Austria (B), Azerbaijan (B), Belarus (B), Belgium (B), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus, Czech Republic (B), Denmark (B) (P), Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia (B), Finland (B), France (B), Gabon, Georgia (B), Germany (B) (P), Ghana, Greece (B) (P), Guinea, Hungary (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of], Iraq (P), Ireland (B), Israel, Italy (B) (P), Jordan (P), Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan (P), Latvia (B), Lebanon, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein (B), Lithuania (B), Luxembourg (B), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Moldova [Republic of] (B), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Netherlands Antilles (B), Nigeria, Norway (B), Oman, Poland (B), Qatar, Romania (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B), Russia (European) (B), Saudi Arabia, Serbia (B), Sierra Leone, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B), Slovenia (B), Somalia, Spain (B), Sudan, Sweden (B), Switzerland (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B), Uganda, Ukraine (B) (P), United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom (B), USA, Yemen.

Vagrant to Afghanistan, Bahrain, Benin, China (mainland), Comoros, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Japan, Niger, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Syrian Arab Republic.

Breeds from western Norway, British Is and western and southern France east to south-central Siberia and south through Italy, extreme northern Greece, south-western and central Ukraine and north-eastern Kazakhstan; also disjunctly in Crimea and north-western Caucasus. Non-breeding Africa from Sierra Leone and southern Guinea east to southern Sudan, northern DRCongo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and southern Somalia.
 
Population
Estimated population is 45,000,000 - 90,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Insects and other invertebrates. Occasionally some berries in autumn.

Voice
A plaintive 'pew, pew'. Song, a rapid trill.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (498)...)

 
Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) [XC178226]
     by Martin bonte from Gmina Lipowiec Ko\u015bcielny (near Lewiczyn), M\u0142awa County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (song)

 
Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) [XC438241]
     by Olavi Hinkkanen from Vouill\u00e9, Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (song)

Nest
Dome shaped, composed of grass and dead leaves, on the ground, with little or no ground cover.

Eggs (Guide)
6 - 7; white, heavily marked with reddish- or purplish-brown and greyish spots.

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Occasional hybridization with Western Bonelli's Warbler (Phylloscopus bonelli) recorded.


References
See References.

The Reader's Digest Book of British Birds 1980, 3rd Edition, Drive Publications Ltd ISBN 0 340 25308 8
Birds in Colour Campbell, B., 1960, Penguin Books Ltd
The Pocket Guide to Nest and Eggs Fitter, R.S.R., 1954, Collins
RSPB Handbook of British Birds Holden, P., Cleeves, T., 2002, A & C Black ISBN 0 7136 5713 8
Birds of Britain and Europe Sterry, P., et al., 2001, AA Publishing ISBN 0 7495 3068 5
The Popular Handbook of British Birds Hollom, P.A.D., 1973, H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd ISBN 0 85493 002 7


Files:
JPG files for Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) - 10 files


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