Yellow-browed warbler | |
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Bird on autumn migration in Brussels, Belgium | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Phylloscopidae |
Genus: | Phylloscopus |
Species: | P. inornatus
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Binomial name | |
Phylloscopus inornatus (Blyth, 1842)
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Range of P. inornatus Breeding Passage Non-breeding
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Synonyms | |
Regulus inornatus Blyth, 1842 |
The yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) is a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae) which breeds in the east Palearctic. This warbler is strongly migratory and winters mainly in tropical South Asia and South-east Asia, but also in small numbers in western Europe. Like the rest of Phylloscopidae, it was formerly included in the Old World warbler assemblage.[2]
It was formerly considered to comprise three subspecies, but P. i. humei and P. i. mandellii are now split as a separate species, Hume's leaf warbler P. humei, leaving P. inornatus monotypic. The two sister species differ slightly but consistently in morphology, bioacoustics, and molecular characters.[3][4] Before the species was split, the names yellow-browed willow warbler[5] and inornate warbler[6] were used by a few authors.