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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Icterine Warbler]]'''</div>
  
  
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[[Image:Ibisbill.jpg|thumb|500px|left|Photo ©  by {{user|Yeshey+Dorji|Yeshey Dorji}}<br />Babesa, western [[Bhutan]], 26 November 2004]]
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[[Image:Icterine_Warbler.jpg|thumb|500px|left| Photo &copy; by the late '''[http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=35827 Jim Wood]'''<br />[[Shetland Islands]], 23 May 2008]]
  
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==Identification==
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==Distribution==
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====Adult====
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Breeds from [[Scandinavia]] and southern [[Finland]] east to west-central [[Russia]], (east bank of the Ob river), south to northeast [[France]], southern [[Germany]], [[Romania]] and locally northern [[Balkans]], [[Ukraine]], Crimea and region east of Sea of Azov and northern [[Iran]].
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*Grey-brown upperparts
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*White underparts
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Winters to southern [[Africa]].
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*Long decurved brown to deep red beak (68-82 mm, 26.8-32.3 inches)<br />
 
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*Female similar to male, but slightly larger with slightly longer beak
 
  
  
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====Juvenile====
 
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*Browner with less well defined plumage pattern
 
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*Upperparts have pale fringes
 
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====Immature====
 
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*Plumage almost inseparable from that of adult, except for darker red base of beak
 
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*A few brown feathers in upperparts and sometimes keeps a mainly white face for several months
 
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====Chicks====
 
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*Greyish down with darker black and brown markings
 
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*Long brownish beak
 
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
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Breeds in gravelly mountain river valleys normally lacking any vegetation, from 500 to 4400 m. Recently discovered nesting at just 270 m near Beijing, [[China]].
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Open deciduous woodland, including oak (''Quercus''), birch (''Betula''), beech (''Fagus sylvatica''), alder (''Alnus''), stands of young pine (''Pinus'') if in mixed woodland, bushes and also parks and gardens, often near water. Also enjoys dense woods with open glades and undergrowth.
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Is found at similar habitats in winter, but at lower altitudes, sometimes as low as 100 m.
 
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Frequents lowlands in north of range, wooded hills and mountain slopes up to 1500 m in south.
  
  
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'''[[Ibisbill|Read Full Article.......]]
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'''[[Icterine Warbler|Read Full Article.......]]
  
  

Revision as of 23:45, 30 November 2023

Featured Article: Icterine Warbler


Photo © by the late Jim Wood
Shetland Islands, 23 May 2008

Distribution

Breeds from Scandinavia and southern Finland east to west-central Russia, (east bank of the Ob river), south to northeast France, southern Germany, Romania and locally northern Balkans, Ukraine, Crimea and region east of Sea of Azov and northern Iran.

Winters to southern Africa.


Habitat

Open deciduous woodland, including oak (Quercus), birch (Betula), beech (Fagus sylvatica), alder (Alnus), stands of young pine (Pinus) if in mixed woodland, bushes and also parks and gardens, often near water. Also enjoys dense woods with open glades and undergrowth.

Frequents lowlands in north of range, wooded hills and mountain slopes up to 1500 m in south.


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