Listen to the Yellow-browed warbler
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About the Yellow-browed warbler
The Yellow-browed warbler is a bird in the family Phylloscopidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Yellow-browed warbler sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) is a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae) which breeds in the east Palearctic. This warbler is strongly migratory and winters mainly in tropical South Asia and South-east Asia, but also in small numbers in western Europe. Like the rest of Phylloscopidae, it was formerly included in the Old World warbler assemblage.
It was formerly considered to comprise three subspecies, but P. i. humei and P. i. mandellii are now split as a separate species, Hume's leaf warbler P. humei, leaving P. inornatus monotypic. The two sister species differ slightly but consistently in morphology, bioacoustics, and molecular characters. Before the species was split, the names yellow-browed willow warbler and inornate warbler were used by a few authors.
Related birds in the genus Phylloscopus
Common chiffchaff
Phylloscopus collybita
Willow warbler
Phylloscopus trochilus
Wood warbler
Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Greenish warbler
Phylloscopus trochiloides
Dusky warbler
Phylloscopus fuscatus
Western Bonelli's warbler
Phylloscopus bonelli
Iberian chiffchaff
Phylloscopus ibericus
Green warbler
Phylloscopus nitidus
More from the family Phylloscopidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a Yellow-browed warbler sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Yellow-browed warbler on this page, including its call. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the Yellow-browed warbler endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Yellow-browed warbler as “least concern”.
What family does the Yellow-browed warbler belong to?
The Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) belongs to the family Phylloscopidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Bodenseekreis (near Kressbronn am Bodensee), Tübingen… by Luis Ramos – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q330318 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Yellow-browed warbler – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Wich’yanan (Jay) Limparungpatthanakij – CC BY 4.0