Yellow-browed warbler

Yellow-browed warbler
Bird on autumn migration in Brussels, Belgium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Phylloscopidae
Genus: Phylloscopus
Species:
P. inornatus
Binomial name
Phylloscopus inornatus
(Blyth, 1842)
Range of P. inornatus
  Breeding
  Passage
  Non-breeding
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.

  1. ^ BirdLife International. (2019). "Phylloscopus inornatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22715310A146638886. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22715310A146638886.en. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  2. ^ Hoyo, J. del; et al., eds. (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 11. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. p. 660. ISBN 84-96553-06-X.
  3. ^ Alström & Olsson (1988), Shirihai & Madge (1993), Irwin et al. (2001), Sangster et al. (2002)
  4. ^ Svensson, L., Mullarney, K., & Zetterström, D. (2010). Collins Bird Guide, 2nd ed. HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-00-726814-6.
  5. ^ Cheng Tso-hsin (1987). A Synopsis of the Avifauna of China. Science Press, Beijing ISBN 3-490-12518-5.
  6. ^ e.g. King, B., Woodcock, M., & Dickinson, E. C. (1975). A Field Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia. Collins ISBN 0-00-219206-3.