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Wood Warbler

Phylloscopus sibillatrix

Classification

Class
Aves

The wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asian Russia in the southern Ural Mountains. It is strongly migratory and the entire population winters in tropical Africa. Taxonomy The wood warbler was described in 1792 by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein under the binomial name Motacilla sibillatrix.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 7,708France · 6,443Netherlands · 4,617United Kingdom · 3,737Spain · 2,075Italy · 1,852Switzerland · 410Belgium · 328Luxembourg · 183