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Image by Jan Bisschop
Happy Island, May 2005

Alternative name: Eastern Crowned Leaf-Warbler

Phylloscopus coronatus

[edit] Identification

11cm
Head: Dark olive/grey with a strong coronal stripe which is stronger and more distinct at the rear (often not reaching the forehead). A long narrow whitish supercillium, yellowish and thinner in front of eye, broad at rear, almost joining at nape with coronal stripe. The bill is long and powerful with dark upper mandible, pale yellow/orange below, no dark tip to the lower mandible
Upperparts: Yellowish-green with distinct yellow/green fringes to flight feathers. Often two wing bars, the larger on the greater coverts, a smaller bar on the median coverts.
Underparts: Off white with yellow vent and undertail coverts

[edit] Similar Species

This warbler resembles an Arctic Warbler in structure and behaviour but is much larger.

[edit] Distribution

Asia: Russia, Siberia, China, India, Eastern Himalayas, Bangladesh, Korea], Japan, Hong Kong
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra, Java
Occasion vagrant to Europe.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations
4. Wikipedia

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