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The Yellow-browed Warbler


The Yellow-browed Warbler
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Copyright: Zahoor Ahmed (zahoor_salmi) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 108 W: 0 N: 448] (4422)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-09-12
Categories: Nature
Camera: Cannon 40D, Canon 400mm L 5.6
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1250 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-09-03 1:23
Viewed: 92
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Yellow-browed Warbler or Inornate Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) is a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae) which breeds in temperate Asia. This warbler is strongly migratory and winters in tropical Southeast Asia. Like most similar birds, it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It was formerly considered to comprise of three subspecies, but humei and mandellii are now split as a separate species (Hume's Leaf Warbler), leaving P. inornatus monotypic. The two sister species differ slightly but consistently in morphology, bioacoustics, and molecular characters.[1]
This is one of the smallest "Old World warblers", 9.5-10 cm long: Like most other leaf warblers, it has greenish upperparts and off-white underparts. However, its prominent double wing bars – one long and one short –, lighter stripe on the blackish crown, yellow-margined tertial remiges and long supercilia are quite distinctive.

Its song is weak and high pitched; the call is faintly disyllabic.

The only real possibility of confusion is with the similar-looking Hume's Leaf Warbler (P. humei), which in the limited area of overlap has duller colours, a faint second wing bar and dark legs and lower mandible. Their vocalizations are clearly distinct.
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  • Niva Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1165 W: 2 N: 845] (10693)
  • [2009-09-03 1:28]

Hello Zahoor
That´s a beautiful and sharp image!
Well done, my friend! Such a cute bird there.
TFS.
Brazilian Greetings,
Nivaldo

Hi Zahoor,

Wow!! Amazing capture with nice colors and perfect DOF. I love the details on the feathers. TFS.

Kiran.

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