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Phylloscopus sibillatrix

Wood warbler

Habitus (CC BY-SA 2.0) Steve Garvie

Short Description

yellow-green plumage. Its belly is white, its chest whitish-yellow. Its throat and the supercilium (plumage on the head) are yellow.

Features

Wood warbler

Phylloscopus sibillatrix

  • yellow-green plumage with white belly

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Similar species

Willow warbler

Phylloscopus trochilus
The supercilium (plumage on the head) of the willow warbler is less marked. Its underparts are more of a greenish-yellow.

Chiffchaff

Phylloscopus collybita
The underparts of the chiffchaff are grey-green to yellowish. Its song is also different.

Icterine warbler

Hippolais icterina
The underparts of the icterine warbler are uniformly yellow.
Habitus (CC BY-SA 2.0) Steve Garvie

In the city

In town, the wood warbler is found in sparse deciduous and mixed forests and in parks with sufficient undergrowth.

Fun Facts

  • The planting of non-native conifers impairs the habitat of the wood warbler.

  • Most wood warblers live in monogamous breeding or seasonal marriages. When the breeding season is over, 30-60% of males try to attract a second female partner.

  • Wood warblers are migratory birds that leave for Cameroon, Congo or Ethiopia in September and return to Germany in mid-April. The time of their departure and the direction of their flight are congenitally programmed.

  • Endangerment level Germany: not endangered
singend (CC BY-SA 2.0) Steve Garvie

Sources

Habitus , Steve Garvie, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Wood_Warbler_%28Phylloscopus_sibilatrix%29.jpg

Habitus , Steve Garvie, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Wood_Warbler_(Phylloscopus_sibilatrix)_(2).jpg

singend, Steve Garvie, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Wood_Warbler_(Phylloscopus_sibilatrix)_(1).jpg

Bejcek, V. (1988) Zugvögel, Hanau/Main: Verlag Werner Dausien.

Witt, K. & Steiof, K. (2013) Rote Liste und Liste der Brutvögel von Berlin, 3. version, 15.11.2013. : Berliner Ornithologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft e.V. (eds.) Berliner Ornithologischer Bericht, volume 23, Berlin: Berliner Ornithologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft e.V., 1-23.

Page „Waldlaubsänger“. : Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Date of last revision: 30.04.2015, 21:14 UTC. URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waldlaubs%C3%A4nger&oldid=141645746 (Accessed: 18.02.2016).

Artenfinder (2016) Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Waldlaubsänger), URL: https://arteninfo.net/elearning/voegel/speciesportrait/3106 (Accessed: 25.04.2016).