Icterine Warbler
A species of Warbler Scientific name : Hippolais icterina Genus : Warbler
Icterine Warbler, A species of Warbler
Botanical name: Hippolais icterina
Genus: Warbler
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Description General Info
Description
A fairly big warbler with a large head, broad based bill and long wings with a quite short square ended tail. The upperparts are greyish-green and the underparts are uniformly light yellow. It has pale lores and a rather vague yellowish supercilium with a pale eye ring. Other distinguishing features include a panel on the folded wings formed by pale edges to the secondary feathers and tertiary feathers and the grey, sometimes bluish legs. 
Size
14 cm
Colors
Black
Green
Yellow
Bronze
Gray
Life Expectancy
6 years
Nest Placement
Shrub
Feeding Habits
Icterine Warbler primarily consumes insects, occasionally supplementing their diet with fruit in late summer. They forage in foliage, capturing prey on leaves or in flight with agile maneuvers.
Habitat
The icterine Warbler typically inhabits the edges of woodlands, thriving in environments with a combination of tall undergrowth and well-spaced trees, particularly where there are broadleaf species like oak, birch, beech, and alder. This bird species can adapt to various deciduous and mixed forests, including those with coniferous trees if interspersed with broadleaf varieties. Icterine Warblers have an affinity for open forests and dense woodland areas with clearings. They are also known to occupy lowland regions and wooded mountain slopes up to 1500 meters, extending to parks, gardens, and orchards.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Sounds
Call
Recording location: Belgium
Song
Recording location: Belgium
Song
Recording location: Belgium
Distribution Area
The icterine warbler has the most northerly and widespread distribution of the four Hippolais species, its breeding range extends from northern France and Norway through most of northern and eastern Europe, south as far as the northern Balkans mountains and Crimea mountains eastwards in a narrowing band to the River Ob. It has bred in Scotland recently but it is normally a passage migrant in Great Britain and Ireland It is a migratory species and the entire population winters in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly south of the equator. It begins its southward migration from late July, peaking in early August and returns to the breeding range in late May.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Reed warblers Genus
Warbler Species
Icterine Warbler 
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