Greenish Warbler

Latin Name: 
Phylloscopus trochiloides
Category: 
Size: 
11cm
Description: 

A small, green, slim, arboreal warbler with brown legs. Dull greenish above and whitish below. Prominent long, sweeping supercilia. Usually only one wing bar shows. Sexes alike. Feeds on invertebrates, mainly in the canopy but also lower down. Active and restless. Frequently fly-catches. Usually in scattered parties or mixed hunting groups. Nests low down.

Habitat: 
Inhabits all types of wooded country, including gardens.
Distribution: 
Breeding resident in northernmountainsfromPakistan east to Burmese border. Winters widely in penisular lowlands and Sri Lanka. Common passage migrant elsewhere but occasionally winters.
Call: 
Call Description: 
Noisy. A loud slurred disyllabic tis…lee.
National Status: 
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