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Hume's Leaf Warbler
Phylloscopus humei
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Hume's Leaf Warbler is a tiny, restless leaf warbler of the high mountains of Central Asia, breeding from the Hindu Kush and Karakoram to the Tien Shan and Altai and wintering mainly in India. It closely resembles the Yellow-browed Warbler, with which it was once lumped, but is duller and greyer with less distinct wing bars and a different call. It is a rare autumn vagrant to western Europe.
Did you know?
- It was split from the Yellow-browed Warbler after differences in voice and genetics were confirmed.
- It is named after the ornithologist Allan Octavian Hume.
Voice
About the species
Identification
A small leaf warbler very like Yellow-browed Warbler, with a pale supercilium and wing bars; it is greyer and duller, with a buffish supercilium, less distinct wing bars, less white tertial edges and darker legs. Certain separation is often possible only by call or in the hand. Its call, a downslurred “dsweet”, differs from the Yellow-browed Warbler's.
Family
Sylviidae
Size
Tiny (goldcrest)
Colours
green, white, grey, yellow
About the habitat
Mountain coniferous and mixed forest and scrub up to about 3,500 m; in winter open woodland, scrub, groves and gardens.
Diet
Mainly small insects and other arthropods, such as spiders and larvae, gleaned from leaves and twigs, sometimes by hovering.
Behaviour
Active and almost constantly on the move in the canopy, flicking its wings. It gives a high, buzzing song and a disyllabic call. It nests on the ground.
Sources
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hume's Warbler I2 IMG 3401.jpg
Sound: Sonothèque ADVL, XC1075047, CC0 1.0 https://xeno-canto.org/1075047
Text: Wikipedia (English) + FinBIF species descriptions, CC BY-SA 4.0; FinBIF: CC BY 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hume%27s_leaf_warbler
