Greenish Warbler

Phylloscopus trochiloides plumbeitarsus (Swinhoe, 1861)

Description

Upper parts are darker and more clean-green, less brownish-green than on viridanus. Light tips of upper wing median and lesser coverts form the two wing bars, first of them is more contrast than on viridanus.

Distribution

At May 16 1947 it obtained on Mangyshlak near Fort Shevchenko. Vagrant birds more than once recorded in south-eastern Kazakhstan (Almaty, Iliysk and in Usek river valley).

References

В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Урала, Приуралья и Западной Сибири". Екатеринбург, Изд-во Уральского университета, 2000. Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. А.Ф.Ковшарь "Певчие птицы". Алма-Ата, "Кайнар", 1983.