Yellow-streaked Warbler - BirdForum Opus

Photo by martinuk
Yay Aye Kan, near Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar, February 2011

Phylloscopus armandii

Identification

12 cm (4¾ in)

• Long whitish supercilium

Here is a thread discussing the identification of Yellow-streaked Warbler [[1]]

Distribution

Asia: found in Mongolia, China, Tibet
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• P. a. armandii:

• Mountains of Mongolia to eastern China; winters to Myanmar and northern Laos

• P. a. perplexus:

• South East Tibet to northern Myanmar and south-western China (Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan)

Habitat

Temperate forests. They breed in low bushes and thickets of willow and poplars.

Behaviour

Diet

There is very little information; presumably they eat insects, which they forage for in bushes and low branches.

Gallery

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  Photo by china guy
  Sichuan, China

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  Photo by metroplex
  Chengdu city, the southwest of China

References

1. 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/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2017)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Yellow-streaked Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Yellow-streaked_Warbler

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