adult male

adult male adult female European distribution male singing

Identification

The most common view you are likely to get of this species is of a large skulking species just occasionally peering out from the depths of a bush. It gets its name from the barring on the underparts of the adults but this can be variable. Juvenile and first winter birds may show no barring at all and look like big grey Garden Warblers with heavy bills and pale edges to many of the wing feathers which creates a double wing bar.

Habitat

Breeds in mature scrubby thickets and hedgerows.

Migration

A migratory bird, wintering in east Africa; the Kenyan Highlands and Tanzania.

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For the purposes of our bird news services, Barred Warbler is classed as Scarce: broadly speaking, species that are covered in British Birds' annual review of scarce species (and forms of similar rarity).

Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire 02/11/2009	Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire 02/11/2009	Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire 02/11/2009	Old Hd of Kinsale, Cork 22/10/2009	Wroot, Lincs 18/10/2009
Holy Is., Northumbs 15/10/2009	Garden, Saudi Arabia 12/10/2009	Wester Quarff, Shetland 05/10/2009	Wester Quarff, Shetland 05/10/2009	Garden, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 28/09/2009

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Barred Warbler breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country):

Albania
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
Norway
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine

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	Barred Warbler	Thursday 30th August 2007
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