Sylviidae

Sylvietta rufescens Photo by Lee Hunter (Internet Bird Collection) Common name:long-billed crombec (en); rabicurta-de-bico-comprido (pt); crombec à long bec (fr); sylvieta de pico largo (es); langschnabel-sylvietta (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily Sylviidae Range:This African species is found from eastern D.R. Congo, Angola and Zambia down to southern South Africa.Size:These birds are 12 cm long and weigh about 16…

Locustella naevia Photo by Andreas Gruber (Internet Bird Collection) Common name:common grasshopper warbler (en); felosa-malhada (pt); locustelle tachetée (fr); buscarla pintoja (es); feldschwirl (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily SylviidaeRange: This species is found breed across most of Europe, from the northern Iberian peninsula as far north as southern Sweden and Norway and as far east as central Asia,…

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus Photo by Rinus Motmans (Flickr) Common name:sedge warbler (en); felosa-dos-juncos (pt); phragmite des joncs (fr); carricerín común (es); schilfrohrsänger (de) Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily Sylviidae Range:This species breeds throughout most of Europe and western Asia, as far south as northern Spain, northern Italy, Turkey and Kazakhstan, and as far east as central Siberia. They migrate…

Eremomela icteropygialis Photo by Volker Sthamer (Bird Forum) Common name:yellow-bellied eremomela (en); eremomela-de-barriga-amarela (pt); érémomèle à croupion jaune (fr); eremomela de vientre amarillo (es); gelbbauch-eremomela (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily SylviidaeRange:This species is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in two main populations. One stretches across the Sahel from Mauritania to Sudan and the other is found from…