Birds Guide

Leaf warblers
Pallas' Warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Aves   Order: Passeriformes   Family: Sylviidae   Genus: Phylloscopus Boie, 1826
Species
See text.

Leaf warblers are very small insectivorous birds belonging to the genus Phylloscopus of the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. There are about 50 species in the genus.

These are active, constantly moving, warblers always associated with trees, though normally in fairly open woodland rather than tight plantations. They occur from top canopy to undershrubs. Most of the species are markedly territorial both in their summer and winter quarters.

Most are greenish or brownish above and off-white below. Compared to some other warbler families, their songs are very simple.

Species breeding in temperate regions are usually strongly migratory.

The species are

• Red-faced Woodland Warbler, Phylloscopus laetus
  Laura's Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus laurae
  Yellow-throated Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus ruficapillus
  Uganda Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus budongoensis
  Brown Woodland Warbler, Phylloscopus umbrovirens
  Black-capped Woodland Warbler, Phylloscopus herberti
  Willow Warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus
  Canary Islands Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus canariensis
  Common Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita
  Iberian Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus brehmii
  Mountain Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus sindianus
  Plain Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus neglectus
  Western Bonelli's Warbler, Phylloscopus bonelli
  Eastern Bonelli's Warbler, Phylloscopus orientalis
  Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix
  Dusky Warbler, Phylloscopus fuscatus
  Smoky Warbler, Phylloscopus fuligiventer
  Tickell's Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus affinis
  Buff-throated Warbler, Phylloscopus subaffinis
  Sulphur-bellied Warbler, Phylloscopus griseolus
  Yellow-streaked Warbler, Phylloscopus armandii
  Radde's Warbler, Phylloscopus schwarzi
  Buff-barred Warbler, Phylloscopus pulcher
  Ashy-throated Warbler, Phylloscopus maculipennis
  Pale-rumped Warbler, Phylloscopus chloronotus
  Pallas's Warbler, Phylloscopus proregulus
  Lemon-rumped Warbler, Phylloscopus chloronotus
  Gansu Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus kansuensis
  Chinese Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus sichuanensis
  Brooks' Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus subviridis
  Yellow-browed Warbler, Phylloscopus inornatus
  Hume's Warbler, Phylloscopus humei
  Arctic Warbler, Phylloscopus borealis
  Greenish Warbler, Phylloscopus trochiloides
  Pale-legged Warbler, Phylloscopus tenellipes
  Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus borealoides
  Large-billed Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus magnirostris
  Tytler's Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus tytleri
  Western Crowned Warbler, Phylloscopus occipitalis
  Eastern Crowned Warbler, Phylloscopus coronatus
  Ijima's Warbler, Phylloscopus ijimae
  Blyth's Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus reguloides
  Hainan Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus hainanus
  Emei Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus emeiensis
  White-tailed Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus davisoni
  Yellow-vented Warbler, Phylloscopus cantator
  Sulphur-breasted Warbler, Phylloscopus ricketti
  Lemon-throated Warbler, Phylloscopus cebuensis
  Mountain Warbler, Phylloscopus trivirgatus
  Sulawesi Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus sarasinorum
  Timor Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus presbytes
  Island Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus poliocephalus
  Philippine Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus olivaceus
  San Cristobal Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus makirensis
  Kulambangra Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus amoenus

External links

• Leaf warbler videos on the Internet Bird Collection