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Warbler, Upcher’s

  


Name: Warbler, Upcher’s

Scientific name: Hippolais languida

Type: Warbler

Color: Grey,White

Habitat: Fields

Size: 12.5cm




Conservation status:

Passage Migrant


Description:

Similar to Eastern Olivaceous Warbler but is larger, with a proportionally longer, much darker sooty brown tail. Upper parts are greyer in fresh plumage, with darker wings and pale pale edges to tertials and secondaries, forming an obvious wing panel. Head is rounder from Eastern Olivaceous Warbler but with similar markings, although the paler supercilium often extends behind the eye.Broader white tips to edges of tail feathers. Bill is stronger and legs are greyer than Olivaceous Warblers.




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