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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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Similar species |
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Physical description |
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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.
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Taxonomy, classification |
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See Icterine
Warbler at Wikipedia  .
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Range, habitat, finding this species |
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and range
The overall distribution of this species can be assessed based
on sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to the
ebird.org
website.
The global distribution of the Icterine Warbler is available
HERE
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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.
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Sightings |
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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.
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Photos |
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ADULT |
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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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contributors. The structure of these bird pages is explained HERE. For more salient facts on any bird species
please refer to a field guide.
Breeding
Nest
Eggs
Behaviour
Food
Call/s
