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Savi's Warblers are very small warblers. Even when compared to other species of warblers usually found in reeds, their plumage is very plain. The cap, ear coverts, back, uppertail and wing are all uniformly reddish-brown to olive-grey-brown, with inconspicuous buff supercilia. The colours transition via rufous-grey on the flanks to the buff/ivory underparts with off-white throat patch. The wings have thin greyish-white outer lining, while the tips of the flight feathers are dark-grey. The irises are brown. The slender, straight bill has a dark-grey upper mandible and an horn-coloured lower mandible. Legs and feet are orange-brown.

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 Savi's Warbler is available HERE .

There are three extant races of Savi's Warblers, which are a migratory Eurasian species. Nominate race "luscinioides" overwinters in western Africa, from Senegal to Lake Chad and northern Ghana and migrates to breed along the North coast of Africa and in parts of southern, central and eastern Europe. Race "sarmatica" overwinters in north-eastern Africa and breeds in far eastern and south-eastern Europe. Race "fusca", which overwinters in Sudan and Ethiopia, breeds in an area spanning from the western Mediterranean, via Asia Minor into western and central Asia.

In Europe two races of Savi's Warblers are found only as breeding migrants. The breeding range of nominate race "luscinioides" extends from a few suitable wetlands in parts of Iberia, via (mostly the vallyes of the major rivers, such as Saone, Seine, Rhine, Po and Danube) parts of central Europe to eastern Europe, from Poland to the near-coastal parts of the Baltic States. They are also present in large parts of the Hungarian Puszta. Race "sarmatica" breeds only in Ukraine, along the Sea of Azov, in the Volga region and the Urals. During their migration Savi's Warblers follow distinct flight paths, where they can be seen while under way.

Savi's Warblers have a preference for extended reed beds in wetlands, often with interspersed shrubs.

Race "luscinioides"