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Bird Sightings: Yellow-browed Warbler

Hebrides bird sightings -  Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler (Inornate Warbler)

Phylloscopus inornatus

Photography © Anthony Drake
Laxdale Cottage - Losgantir - Isle of Harris - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
7th October, 2007

 

  • Picture Yellow -browed Warbler
  • Phylloscopus inornatus
  • AKA Inornate warbler
  • Highly active -constant motion, not shy
  • 320 UK annual records
  • Breeds: North and Central Asia
  • Winters: South-East Asia
  • UK is 3000km from it's breeding grounds!
  • Habitat: Mountain & lowland woodland, open forest, scrub, usually in tree canopy
  • Diet: Mostly insects
  • One of the smallest warblers
  • Greenish upperparts, off-white below, prominent double wing bars and long supercilia (eyebrow)
  • BTO records

 

 

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