Eastern crowned warbler

The eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It inhabits boreal and temperate forests in the east Palearctic.

Eastern crowned warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Phylloscopidae
Genus: Phylloscopus
Species:
P. coronatus
Binomial name
Phylloscopus coronatus
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1847)
The range of Eastern crowned warbler
Synonyms

Ficedula coronata Temminck & Schlegel, 1847

Description

The eastern crowned warbler is a medium-sized, rather robust and brightly coloured leaf warbler. It is dark olive-green above and white below with a strong head pattern of dark, grey lateral crown stripes with an indistinct yellowish median crown stripe. It also has a long yellowish-white supercilium with a dark stripe through the eye and dark lores and dusky yellow cheeks. It has a single pale wingbar. The square tail shows a slight fork. It has quite a strong, robust, pale-coloured bill and dark legs.[2]

Distribution

The eastern crowned warbler breeds in eastern Siberia from the Argun River eastwards and southwards into western Manchuria and into central Szechwan, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. It winters in south-east Asia from eastern India and Bangladesh to Java.[2] It has occurred as a vagrant in western Europe with the fist record for Great Britain being in County Durham in 2009, this was the fifth record for the Western Palearctic.[3][4] the UK,[5] and Scandinavia.[6]

Habitat and biology

The eastern crowned warbler of open woodland, either mixed or deciduous, at the lower and middle altitudes of mountains, although in the northern part of their range they inhabit dense taiga. Wintering birds occur in open woodland, deep jungle and mangroves. This is an arboreal species but it will forage quite low down in vegetation and will join mixed flocks of other small birds in the winter and in the breeding season. The vocal species is often located by its frequent singing. It readily flycatches by sallying out from a parch to catch insects in flight.[2]

Etymology

The genus name Phylloscopus is from Ancient Greek phullon, "leaf", and skopos, "seeker" (from skopeo, "to watch"). The specific coronatus is from Latin and means "crowned".[7]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Phylloscopus coronatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22715348A94449332. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22715348A94449332.en. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  2. Kevin Baker (1997). Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa. Helm Identification Guides. Christopher Helm (Publishers) Limited. pp. 306–307. ISBN 0713639717.
  3. Alan Tilmouth (23 October 2009). "The Eastern Crowned Warbler in Co. Durham". Birdguides. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  4. Mullarney, Killian; Svensson, Lars; Zetterström, Dan; Grant, Peter J. (2001). Collins Bird Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe. London, UK: Collins. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-00-711332-3.
  5. Hume, Rob; Still, Robert; Swash, Andy; Harrap, Hugh; Tipling, David (2016). Britain's Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. Princeton NJ, US: Princeton University Press. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-691-15889-1.
  6. "Rariteettikomitean tiedotearkisto: Tiedote 21.3.2005". birdlife.fi (in Finnish). Birdlife Suomi. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  7. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 118, 305. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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