|
Barred Warbler
|
||
|
Taken
at Torness on 6th December 2015 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 150-500 mm zoom lens.
|
 |
|
|
|
||
| Barred Warbler. |
| Species : Order: Family: Local names: |
Sylvia nisoria. Passeriformes. Sylviidae. |
| Site
Of Nest: Food: Size: Plumage: Breeding: Eggs: |
Low shrubs or brambles. Mainly insectivorous, but also takes berries and other soft fruit extensively in late summer and autumn. 15.5 - 17 cms. Adult males are dark grey above with white tips on the wing coverts and tail feathers, and heavily barred below. The female is similar but slightly paler and has only light barring. Young birds are buffy grey-brown above, pale buff below, and have very little barring, with few obvious distinctive features. The eye has a yellow iris in adults, dark in immatures; the bill is blackish with a paler base, and the legs stout, grey-brown. Breeds across temperate regions of central and eastern Europe and western and central Asia. This passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical eastern Africa. 3 - 7. |
| Voice: |