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Photo by © James Williams
Photo taken: Red Hills, near Ooty, Tamil Nadu, Southern India.

Includes Alpine Leaf Warbler = West Chinese Leaf Warbler

Phylloscopus affinis

Identification

Photo © by drkishore
Maredumilli, Andhra Pradesh, India, November-2018

11cm. Yellow underside and supercilium.

Distribution

Asia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies occisinensis, Alpine Leaf Warbler
Photo © by Dave 2x
Qinghai, China June, 2017

The third subspecies (occisinensis) was formerly recognized as a full species with the name of Alpine Leaf Warbler.

Subspecies

Clements recognize three subspecies[1]:

  • P. a. perflavus breeds in the western Himalayas, winter range unknown
  • P. a. affinis breeds in the eastern Himalayas, winters to Burma and Thailand
  • P. a. occisinensis breeds in eastern Tibet and Sichuan and Gansu (China); winter range unknown but recorded in southern China (Yunnan) in non-breeding season.

Habitat

Behaviour

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