Forum Warbler Year List (VI)

[dennis]

Hello everyone!

Time to start anew. This is the warbler list to date. Please post any new discoveries to this thread. The list is based on Clement's, "Birds of the World, a Checklist".

OLD WORLD WARBLERS (Sylviidae)

Chestnut-headed Tesia
Gray-bellied Tesia
Asian Stubtail
Pale-footed Bush-warbler
Japanese Bush-warbler
Brownish-flanked Bush-warbler
Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler
Yellowish-bellied Bush-warbler
Gray-sided Bush-warbler
Cetti's Warbler
African Bush-warbler
Ceylon Bush-warbler
Cape Grassbird
Grasshopper Warbler
Eurasian River Warbler
Savi's Warbler
Moustached Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Black-browed Reed-warbler
Paddyfield Warbler
Eurasian Reed-warbler
African Reed-warbler
Blyth's Reed-warbler
Marsh Warbler
Great Reed-warbler
Oriental Reed-warbler
Clamorous Reed-warbler
Australian Reed-warbler
Lesser Swamp-warbler
Thick-billed Warbler
Booted Warbler
Sykes' Warbler
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Western Olivaceous Warbler
Melodious Warbler
Icterine Warbler
African Yellow Warbler
Common Tailorbird
Dark-necked Tailorbird
Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
Ashy Tailorbird
Senegal Eremomela
Green-backed Eremomela
Greencap Eremomela
Burnt-neck Eremomela
Northern Crombec
Red-faced Crombec
Cape Crombec
Willow Warbler
Common Chiffchaff
Iberian Chiffchaff
Bonelli's(Eastern) Warbler
Bonelli's(Western) Warbler
Wood Warbler
Dusky Warbler
Smoky Warbler
Tickell's Leaf-warbler
Sulphur-bellied Warbler
Buff-barred Warbler
Ashy-throated Warbler
Pale-rumped Warbler
Pallas' Warbler
Brooks' Leaf-Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler
Hume's Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Greenish Warbler
Two-barred Warbler
Pale-legged Leaf-warbler
Large-billed Laef-warbler
Western Crowned Leaf-warbler
Eastern Crowned Leaf-warbler
Blyth's Leaf-warbler
Yellow-vented Warbler
Golden-spectacled Warbler
Whistler's Warbler
Plain-tailed Warbler
Gray-hooded Warbler
White-spectacled Warbler
Gray-cheeked Warbler
Chestnut-crowned Warbler
Black-faced Warbler
Broad-billed Warbler
Marsh Grassbird
Tawny Grassbird
Little Grassbird
Striated Grassbird
Fernbird
Brown Songlark
Rufous Songlark
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Greater Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Small Whitethroat
Hume's Whitethroat
Barred Warbler
Eastern Orphean Warbler
Rueppell's Warbler
Subalpine Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler
Spectacled Warbler
Dartford Warbler

That is 104 of the 290 possible (35.9%)

New World on next post.
dennis

[dennis]

NEW WORLD WARBLERS (Peucedramidae and Parulidae)

Olive Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Colima Warbler
Lucy's Warbler
Flame-throated Warbler
Northern Parula
Tropical Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Golden-cheeked Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Blackburian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Grace's Warbler
Pine Warbler
Kirkland's Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Olive-crowned Yellowthroat
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Red-faced Warbler
Painted Redstart
Slate-throated Redstart
Collared Redstart
Spectacled Redstart
Fan-tailed Warbler
Gray-and-gold Warbler
Choco Warbler
Black-crested Warbler
Russet-crowned Warbler
Golden-crowned Warbler
Rufous-capped Warbler
Golden-browed Warbler
Black-cheeked Warbler
Three-striped Warbler
Buff-rumped Warbler
Wrenthrush
Yellow-breasted Chat
Gray-throated Chat

That is 69 of the 114 possible. (60.5%)

Old and new world combined = 173 of 404 (42.8%)

[dennis]

Hello everyone,

Anyone find any warblers for our list on the Great Global Bird Count?

Time's running out for this year list. I'm off to the Caribbean in 3 weeks. Hope for 1 or 2 new discoveries there.

Keep warblering,
dennis

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Dennis,

I can add Pallas's Warbler - though I seem to remember Hanno has already had that. Is it just that the names have reverted to Clement's mess-up with this species and its close allies?

Michael

[dennis]

Thanks Michael. Took Lemon-rumped Warbler off and added Pallas' Warbler. Forgot to make that correction when posting Warbler List IV.

dennis

[Michael Frankis]

Any obvious ones that are not on which people might have seen?

For the Old World:

Anyone manage to connect with one of the Lanceolated Warblers on Fair Isle?

Anyone seen Aquatic Warbler anywhere - either on the breeding grounds in Poland etc, or on passage in NW Europe / southern England?

Western Olivaceous Warbler in Spain, anyone? Tchagra, have you managed to ring any?

Anyone twitched a Radde's Warbler in the last few days?

Anyone had Marmora's Warbler on their visits to the Balearics this year?

Michael

[dennis]

How about a Connecticut Warbler by anyone on this side of the Atlantic? Love to get a few more from the tropics.

dennis

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Dennis,

Seems we can add Western Olivaceous Warbler, courtesy of Tchagra:

http://www.birdforum.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9397

And the thread with the pic:
http://www.birdforum.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8561

Michael

[dennis]

Thanks Tchagra(and Michael)! Western Olivaceous Warbler has been recorded above.

dennis

[dennis]

Just reminding people of this thread. Time is running short to add any additional species to our list.

The birders in the Southern Hemisphere should be seeing their warblers in their finest breeding plumage this time of year!

Good health and good birds,
dennis

[paulh]

Here's a few more for the list. All seen in Kenya.

Little Rush Warbler
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Grey Wren Warbler
Red-faced Crombec
Pale Prinia
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Black-headed Apalis
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Carruthers's Cisticola
Chubb's Cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Stout Cisticola


Paul

[dennis]

Thank you Paul.

Red-faced Crombec will make the list.

I need scientific names for both Little Rush Warbler and Grey-backed Camaroptera. The names of these species are different in Clement's list.

The rest, I'm afraid, are not going to make it. Clement's has listed all those species under the new family Cisticolidae(Cisticolas and Allies). They are, quite properly, listed as warblers in your reference materials.

Thanks again,
dennis

[paulh]

Little Rush Warbler - Bradypterus baboecala
Grey-backed Camaroptera - Camaroptera brachyura

[dennis]

OK Paul.

Clements calls Little Rush Warbler...African Bush-warbler. That species has already been listed.

Clements' name for Grey-backed Camaroptera is Green-backed Camaroptera. That had not been reported. But it is in the Cisticola family.

So.... Red-faced Crombec is a new addition! Good job!

Dennis

[dennis]

Thanks to the recent Great Global Bird Count we can add 5 more "old world" warblers:

Cape Grassbird(Cape Grass-warbler)
Australian Reed-warbler
Greencap Eremomela
Burnt-neck Eremomela
Cape Crombec

All have been added to the year-lists at the beginning of this thread.

Thanks to all observers!
dennis

[Gorgon]

I'm new to this so I am not certain if you are trying to list all Warblers or just the one's that have been seen this year. I have recorded Rufous Songlark, though I don't have access to Clements to confirm whether this is still Sylviidae (Australian Checklists still say it is)
Cheers,
Peter

[dennis]

Hello Peter,

This is a year list.

Rufous Songlark would make the list "IF" you have seen it in 2003. Please let me know.

Hoping for a new one,
dennis

[Gorgon]

Yep, then you can add this one. 1 was at Kinchega NP about three weeks ago.
Cheers,
Peter

[robinm]

Dennis, glad to see GGBC has nade a contribution to your list.

[dennis]

Thanks Peter. Rufous Songlark is now on the list.

We have now recorded a full 40% of all possible warbler species on Clement's world checklist. Wish they were all on my personal life list!

Thank you Robin. Your efforts with the GGBC are greatly appreciated.

keep warblering,
dennis

[dennis]

Hello all you warbler watchers.

The year is ending, and with it, our first annual warbler hunt. We have done very well indeed! 162 species as per Clement's "Birds of the World, a Checklist". That is 40% of all possibles from that list.

There are still a few days left. If you haven't done so already, please check the lists in the first two posts of this thread for any sightings we may have missed.

Thanks to all that contributed. It certainly was a learning experience for me.

Happy New Year!(a tad early)
Good health and good birds,
dennis

[Birdingam]

Got a few that may be missing:

Fan-tailed Warbler/Zitting cisticola or have I missed ii in the above list ?
Ashy Prinia
Jungle Prinia
Plain Prinia
Sri Lanka Bush Warbler
Green Warbler

All from, surprisingly, Sri Lanka

Andy

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Andy,

The cisticolas and prinias don't count, as they've been split off in a family of their own now. Sri Lanka Bush Warbler (A Cettia, I presume?) will count. Green Warbler - is that Phylloscopus trochiloides nitidus? If yes, then it is just a race of Greenish and doesn't count; if it is something different, it presumably will count.

Michael

[dennis]

Thank you Andy and Michael.

As Michael has stated, cisticolas and prinias won't count as Clements has them in the family Cisticolidae(Cisticolas and Allies).

I believe the Sri Lanka Bush-warbler you saw was Bradypterus palliseri(?), known as Ceylon Bush-warbler on this side of the ocean. Let me know.

Phylloscopus nitidus is regarded(over here) as a seperate species, Green Warbler, and will count. Of course I will check on any recent developments to be sure.

Michael. Clements has Greenish Warbler seperated into 4 subspecies: viridanus, trochiloides, ludlowi and obscuratus. Green Warbler, Phylloscopus nitidus, no subspecies.

Upon Andy's confimation we will be able to add both Green and Ceylon Bush-warbler.

[Birdingam]

Hi Dennis


Yep Ceylon(Sri-Lanka) Bush-Warbler is Bradypterus palliseri and Green Warbler is
indeed Phylloscopus nitidus so they should both count.

Andy

[dennis]

Thank you Andy.

Both Ceylon Bush-warbler and Green Warbler have been added to the list above. We are now at 164 species.

A member has contacted me with their plans to be birding India during the last week of December. Hopefully that trip will yield a few more for the list. Anyone else birding Central and South America for a Christmas count please let me know of your warbler finds.

Happy holidays to all,
dennis

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Dennis,

Any plans for a BF 2004 yearlist? Warblers again, or a different group?

Michael

[Birdingam]

Good point Michael, any suggestions for next years families anybody. How about Kingfishers or Bee-eaters or Woodpeckers, certainly the latter has a large number to be seen.

Andy

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Andy,

Not very many of any of those! Perhaps all 'near-passerines' put together? (i.e., pigeons to woodpeckers); otherwise, I was thinking of perhaps suggesting waders (shorebirds): sandpipers, plovers, etc.

Michael

[Birdingam]

Good idea Michael, could get a decent number and a fair variety from around the world. Anyone else ?

Andy

[dennis]

"all passerines" !!!!!! Michael, you're killing me!

How about this...Clements records 204 different families of birds worldwide. How many can we find a representitive of in 2004? I have 90 represented on my personal list. How about you?

dennis

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Dennis,

Read again! near-passerines ;)

Have to check how many different families I got this year . . .

Michael

[dennis]

Sorry Michael. Need to have my eyes checked. What do you think of the "families list" idea?

dennis

[Birdingam]

I reckon families could be a good one, at a rough estimate I think I've probably knocked around 80 families on the head this year and I haven't even been over the pond this year. I reckon between us all we should more or less clear up bearing in mind the geographic coverage we've got.

Andy

[Sumit]

Hi,
This list completely skipped my mind. Here are 9 more for the Old World list from our November trip to the North-east Himalayas where we saw 24 warbler species.
Grey-bellied Tesia Tesia cyaniventer
Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler Cettia fortipes
Yellowish-bellied Bush Warbler Cettia robustipes
Ashy-throated Warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis
Lemon-rumped Warbler Phylloscopus chloronotus
Yellow-vented Warbler Phylloscopus cantator
White-spectacled Warbler Seicercus affinis
Chestnut-crowned Warbler Seicercus castaneiceps
Broad-billed Warbler Tickellia hodgsoni
Cheers!
Sumit

[dennis]

Thanks Sumit.

All will make the list but I have a question or two....

Yellow-bellied Bush Warbler is Cettia acanthizoides in Clements' list. Have any idea why?

Phylloscopes chloronotous is Pale-rumped Warbler on that list. ?????

Clements is a real problem at times.

On another note....Michael was correct about Green Warbler, it is now a sub-species of Greenish Warbler. Good job Michael!! You're the best.

dennis

[Gorgon]

You can now add Brown Songlark as well (seen near Crookwell on the Southern Highlands).
Cheers,
Peter

[Sumit]

Hi Dennis,
I think the Yellowish-bellied is recognized as a case of scientific name inconsitency. You are Ok using Clement's, I guess.
I have P. chloronotous as Lemon-rumped in the Annotated Checklist for the Oriental Region by Inskipp, Lindsey and Duckworth. They do helpfully mention that Lemon-rumped=Pale-rumped.
Hope that helps.
Cheers!
sumit

[dennis]

Thanks to Sumit and Gorgon are list has grown. We have now recorded 172 of the world's 404 warbler species(according to Clements).

Once again thanks to Michael Frankis for his aid in "splits and lumps".

dennis

[Swift]

Large billed leaf Warbler is the only one I can add for last year.

[dennis]

Thank-you Swift.

It looks as though that might be the final addition to our list so let us sum up...

Last year(2003) forum memebers reported seeing:

104 of the 290 "old world" warbler species (35.9%)
69 of the 114 "new world" warbler species (60.5%)

That is 173 of the 404 warbler species listed in Clements' "Birds of the World, A Checklist".(42.8%)

Thanks to all that submitted reports and may this year bring many new species to your personal lifelists.

dennis