Sylviidae

Phylloscopus inornatus Photo by J. Sagardía (Birding in Lanzarote) Common name: yellow-browed warbler (en); felosa-bilistada (pt); pouillot à grands sourcils (fr); mosquitero bilistado (es); gelbbrauen-laubsänger (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Sylviidae Range: This Asian species is found breeding from just west of the Ural Mountains to eastern Siberia, Mongolia and north-eastern China. They winter from…

Sylvia undata Photo by Alberto Maia (Flickr) Common name: Dartford warbler (en); felosa-do-mato (pt); fauvette pitchou (fr); curruca rabilarga (es); Provencegrasmücke (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Sylviidae Range: This species has a patchy distribution restricted to southern and western Europe and north-west Africa, being found in Portugal, Spain, Andorra, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia…

Acrocephalus paludicola Common name: aquatic warbler (en); felosa-aquática (pt); phragmite aquatique (fr); carricerín cejudo (es); seggenrohrsänger (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Sylviidae Range: This species breeds across a highly fragmented range at less than 50 regular breeding sites in eastern Europe and near Asia, from eastern germany, through Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and into…

Achaetops pycnopygius Common name: rockrunner (en); salta-pedras (pt); achétopse à flancs roux (fr); saltarrocas de Damara (es); klippensänger (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Sylviidae Range: This African species is only found in central and north-western Namibia and in southern Angola. Size: The rockrunner is 16-17 cm long and has a wingspan of 27 cm. They…