Brown Woodland-Warbler (Phylloscopus umbrovirens)

Other Names (World)
Brown Woodland-Warbler, Brown Warbler(!), Brown Woodland Warbler

Family
Phylloscopidae (Leaf-warblers)

Size
10 - 11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(R�ppell, 1840)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 1,500 - 4,300 m , occasionally down to 750 m.

Range (Guide)

Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia (B), Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Yemen (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (55)...)

Brown Woodland Warbler (Phylloscopus umbrovirens) [XC840581]
by Brendan Sloan from Rwenzori Mountains , Western Region, Uganda (song)

Brown Woodland Warbler (Phylloscopus umbrovirens) [XC640833]
by Gregory Askew from Abha, Aseer Province, Saudi Arabia (song)

Subspecies
Has been placed in genus Seicercus. Geographical variation broadly clinal. Some subspecies perhaps untenable.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

yemenensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1913) - South-western Saudi Arabia and western Yemen.
umbrovirens (R�ppell, 1840) - Eritrea, northern and central Ethiopia and north-western Somalia.
omoensis (Neumann, 1905) - Western and southern Ethiopia.
williamsi Clancey, 1956 - Northern Somalia (Erigavo district).
mackenzianus (Sharpe, 1892) - South-eastern Sudan, northern and eastern Uganda, extreme north-west, western and central Kenya and northern Tanzania.
alpinus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1906) - Ruwenzori Mts, along DRCongo-south-western Uganda-Rwanda border.
wilhelmi (Gyldenstolpe, 1922) - Eastern DRCongo to south-western Uganda, Rwanda (Kivu Volcanoes) and Burundi.
dorcadichroa (Reichenow & Neumann, 1895) - South-eastern Kenya (Chyulu Hills) south to northern and north-eastern Tanzania.
fugglescouchmani (Moreau, 1941) - Eastern Tanzania (Uluguru Mts).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown Woodland-Warbler (Phylloscopus umbrovirens) - 10 files

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