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Icterine Warbler (Hippolais icterina) German name(s): "Gelbspötter" Size: 12.5-14 cm Weight: 11-16 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Icterine Warblers are small tree warblers. The entire front is light-yellow, with lores, supercilia and eye-rings of the same colour. The rest of the head and the back are greyish-olive. The dark-grey flight feathers have only minimal olive-grey edge lining. The irises are dark-brown; the bill has an orange to horn-coloured lower mandible and a grey upper mandible. Legs and feet are pinkish-grey.

Taxonomy, classification See Icterine 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 Icterine Warbler is available HERE . The Icterine Warbler is a migratory species. Their wintering grounds are in eastern sub-Saharan Africa, in an area spanning from about the Red Sea coastline to South Africa. They breed in Europe (except the South-west) and eastward into western Asia, as far eastward as the Ob River. In Europe Icterine Warblers are summer breeding migrants. They breed from eastern France and the Benelux countries in the West and from the Alps, the Balkans, the entire Danube valley and the North Coast of the Black Sea in the South, north-eastwards, across eastern Europe and western Asia. The northern boundary of their breeding range lies near a geographical latitude of 65 degrees, in central Scandinavia, southern Finland and north-western Russia. During their migration they can be found anywhere in the Mediterranean eastward of about the Costa del Sol in Spain. Icterine Warblers have a preference for breeding in woodland, often along edges, and areas with scattered trees.

Sightings Click here for sighting information We have not seen an Icterine Warbler in Europe yet. The photos shown below were obtained by D. Wilczynska in Georgia, on the southern slopes of the Caucasus, in June 2018. All sighting and photographic information presented on this page has kindly been contributed by D. Wilczynska.

Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Icterine Warbler (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[June 2018]

Near-lateral view of a Icterine Warbler (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[June 2018]

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