yellow-browed warbler
phylloscopus inornatus latin

The best distinction from the Yellow-browed Warbler is the more disyllabic call.

The Yellow-browed Warbler also lacks the pale half circle present below the young Firecrest's eye.

The Yellow-browed Warbler has a yellowish supercilium and pale crown stripe, so also shows a different head pattern.

A common species in most of its wide range, the Yellow-browed Warbler is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

It was recently split from the Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus), based on differences in morphology, bioacoustics, and molecular characters.

With its long supercilium, crown stripe and yellow-margined tertial remiges, it is very similar to the Yellow-browed Warbler (P. inornatus).

Siberian species such as Yellow-browed Warbler and Pechora Pipit also occur much more regularly in Britain than further east in Europe.

The Goldcrest is usually easily distinguished from other small birds in its range, but poor views could possibly lead to confusion with the Common Firecrest or Yellow-browed Warbler.

The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) is a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae) which breeds in temperate Asia.

Hume's Leaf Warbler overlaps its breeding range with Yellow-browed Warbler in the western Sayan Mountains, but the species apparently do not hybridise.

It is one of the smallest warblers; at 9-10 cm long and 4-7 g weight it is slightly smaller than a Yellow-browed Warbler and barely any larger than a Goldcrest.

At the time it was believed to be a variant of the Yellow-browed Warbler, but was reclassified in 2002 and the recording of it by Scott was declared the first official one.

They come from northern latitudes and higher altitudes and include Yellow-browed Warbler, Common Starling, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail and White-browed Wagtail come here in search of food.

She collected the first Scottish autumn specimens of the Yellow-browed Warbler and was the first ornithologist to demonstrate that the Icelandic race of the Common Redshank (Tringa totanus robusta) visits Britain.

The situation on the east coast also makes it a good place for observing migrating birds arriving from the east, including large numbers of Redwing and Fieldfare, and also scarcer Siberian birds including regular annual Yellow-browed Warblers.

Birds inhabiting the reserve include the Avocet, Grey Phalarope, Osprey, Dartford Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Serin, Black-throated Diver, Hobby, Peregrine, Wryneck, Hoopoe and Nightjar.

The common species may be accompanied by a Wryneck, Red-backed Shrike or Greenish Warbler in August, with Goldcrests, thrushes and finches later in the season, and perhaps Red-breasted Flycatchers and Yellow-browed Warblers.

There is more likelihood of confusing the juvenile Firecrest with the Yellow-browed Warbler, which has a similar head pattern; the warbler (an Asiatic species) has pale fringes to the feathers of the closed wing, a whitish belly and darker brown legs.

It was recently split from the Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus), based on differences in morphology, bioacoustics, and molecular characters.

The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) is a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae) which breeds in temperate Asia.

Price, Trevor & Jamdar, N. (1991): Breeding biology of the Yellow-browed leaf warbler Phylloscopus inornatus (humei) in Kashmir.