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Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) German name(s): "Gartengrasmücke" Size: 13-14.5 cm; wing span 20-24 cm Weight: 16-22 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Garden Warblers are small insectivore birds. Their plumage is plain which, together with their discreet habits, can make them hard to locate. The two sexes are alike. Garden Warblers have unstreaked olive-brown upperparts and dull white underparts. The tip of the tail is a bit darker than the rest of the upperparts and the tips of the primary flight feathers are the darkest shade of grey. They have thin, inconspicuous whitish eye-rings and faint pale supercilia. The sides of the neck are grey, while the throat and the flanks have a buff wash. The irises are dark, legs and feet are bluish-grey. The strong, short bill is grey, with a slightly darker grey upper mandible compared to the lower one. Race "woodwardi" is slightly larger and paler than nominate race "borin".

Taxonomy, classification See Garden Warbler at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Garden Warbler is available HERE . There are 2 extant races of Garden Warblers, which are a strongly migratory species. Nominate race "borin" breeds in much of Europe. Race "woodwardi" breeds further to the East, from eastern and south-eastern Europe to temperate central Asia. They overwinter in tropical to subtropical southern Africa (except South Africa). Anywhere in between tropical Africa and central Europe they are found only on migration. In Europe Garden Warblers, nominate race "borin", are summer breeding migrants to western, central and northern Europe. They are also found basically all over Britain and in small parts of Ireland. On the continent, their range extends from the northern half of Iberia, all of central Europe north of the Alps, Scandinavia except the Kola peninsula, up to eastern Europe, to a line connecting roughly Finland with Hungary and Bosnia. Further to the East, race "woodwardi" is found. Garden Warblers have a strong preference for forests and woodland with tall trees and dense, shrubby undergrowth. They are often found on the edges of wooded areas, in low, dense fringe growth, or around clearings. They will also stay in parks and gardens with such dense undergrowth.

Sightings Click here for sighting information Race "borin" J. Pires reports spotting a Garden Warbler, race "borin", along the Sorraia River, Couco, Coruche, Portugal, in August 2022. All sighting and audio information presented on this page has kindly been contributed by J. Pires.

Photos

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Race "borin"

Call(s)/Song

For this species we have recorded the following call(s)/song. The interpretation of their meaning is our own; comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

gardwrb_jp_20220813.mp3

borin (Portugal)

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© JP

More Garden Warbler sound recordings are available at xeno-canto.org .

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