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Rare sighting: icterine warbler ?
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:40 pm
by cyprusmax47
I was lucky enough to have my camera at the lunch table ready to act: after the sparrow crowd left the dish, suddenly this nice rare bird appeared. I am not 100% sure if it is a icterine warbler who was visiting this summer several times the birds bath... but now I got you, yes....
Max
Re: Rare sighting: icterine warbler ?
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:55 pm
by ApusApus
Sorry Max, it's a Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus!
Shane
Re: Rare sighting: icterine warbler ?
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:52 pm
by cyprusmax47
ApusApus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:55 pm
Sorry Max, it's a Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilus!
Shane
Thank you Shane, I thought first it is either the icterine warbler or the melodious warbler which look similar to me. As I was reading now on arkive.org the willow warbler species decreased 70% in the last 25 years in the UK and is considered to be an Amber list bird... I wonder if the same decrease is in Cyprus..
Max