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- Phylloscopus ibericus
Identification
11–12 cm, 4.3-4.7 inches. 7–8·25 g, 0.24 -0.29 oz
Adult
- Pale supercilium tinged yellowish-green with more lemon yellow over and in front of eye
- Narrow but quite distinctive pale eyering
- Contrasting dark eyestripe
- Green-brown cheek and ear-coverts
- Crown and upperparts yellowish olive-green, in fresh autumn plumage crown and mantle sometimes with brown hue
- Remiges and rectrices brown, fringed pale olive-green
- Whitish below
- Breast streaked with yellow
- Lemon-yellow vent and sometimes paler undertail-coverts
- Underwing-coverts and axillaries lemon-yellow (usually protruding visibly at bend of closed wing)
- Iris dark brown
- Beak dark brown to black
- Legs dark brown to black
Juvenile
- Upperparts yellowish-brown
- Underparts yellow and slightly richer yellow than on juvenile Common Chiffchaff
- A thread discussing the ID of Iberian Chiffchaff [[1]]
Distribution
Found mainly in Spain and Portugal. A small population in adjacent south-western France.
A small population occurs in the north of Morocco especially in the eastern Rif montains areas. Unfortunatly no scientific studies have been carried out to evaluate the status of the Moroccan population.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Two subspecies recognized[1]:
- P. i. biscayensis in northern Portugal, northern Spain and France
- P. i. ibericus in central and southern Portugal and south-western Spain
Has been considered conspecific with Common Chiffchaff in the past.
Habitat
Behaviour
Diet
Breeding
Vocalisation
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Listen in an external program
Recording by wintibird, Switzerland, April 2010
Movement
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.4). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2016)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Iberian Chiffchaff. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Iberian_Chiffchaff
