Asian desert warbler? Iran Central desert. Rig-e-jen (1 Viewer)

[alirezakiani]

 

[KenM]

Looks like a Common Whitethroat.

Cheers

 

[alirezakiani]

Looks like a Common Whitethroat.

Cheers

There was a very harsh environment. Just salt and sands and just a couple of tamarixes...
Thanks.😊

 

[jogresh]

The date is quite important here Ali. 👍

 

[lou salomon]

even without date - there's no other Sylvia looking like this, ssp. icterops of Common Whitethroat.

 

[jogresh]

Agree with Whitethroat, my request for the date was more with regard to Ali's comments about the location and habitat - "a very harsh environment. Just salt and sands and just a couple of tamarixes". If the pic was taken in say, April or October, then it wouldn't seem odd. If taken today, or mid July, then that would be perplexing..

Edit - i've just thought to look at the name of the file. It seems it might have been taken 22.1.23. Do Whitethroat normally winter in Iran? I thought they all went to Africa?

 

[KenM]

Edit - i've just thought to look at the name of the file. It seems it might have been taken 22.1.23. Do Whitethroat normally winter in Iran? I thought they all went to Africa?

Two Sylvia communis + Reed Warbler overwintered certainly into late December at a Leytonstone (NE London) roundabout, frequenting rough ground and a deep bramble strewn, watery ditch in 2014.

 

[alirezakiani]

Agree with Whitethroat, my request for the date was more with regard to Ali's comments about the location and habitat - "a very harsh environment. Just salt and sands and just a couple of tamarixes". If the pic was taken in say, April or October, then it wouldn't seem odd. If taken today, or mid July, then that would be perplexing..

Edit - i've just thought to look at the name of the file. It seems it might have been taken 22.1.23. Do Whitethroat normally winter in Iran? I thought they all went to Africa?

Yes it was winter. That place ( rig-e-jen in Iran's Central desert) is too hot to go in any other seasons...

 

[jogresh]

Yes it was winter. That place ( rig-e-jen in Iran's Central desert) is too hot to go in any other seasons...

Interesting. I'm wondering how many other midwinter records of Whitethroat there are in Iran? Are you aware of any?