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Garden Warbler

Sylvia borin

Garden Warbler
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Havesangeren er en 14 centimeter stor spurvefugl. der er udbredt i næsten hele Europa og i et bælte ind i det vestlige Asien.

Field marks

A with not one striking mark — uniform grey-brown above and a shade paler, greyish-white below. The bill is short and fairly stout, the head looks round, and around the eye sits a faint pale ring with a short, barely-there brow line. The tail tip is squared off, and the legs are sturdy and pale grey. The sheer absence of marks is itself the mark.

Can be confused with

  • Eurasian Blackcap — Blackcap has a distinct black (male) or reddish-brown (female) cap, which the Garden Warbler entirely lacks, and its similar-sounding song is usually already being heard from early April — before the Garden Warbler has even arrived.

Voice

Sings a long, bubbling stream of deep, rich notes with no fixed theme — it can recall the Blackcap’s song, but without the Blackcap’s excited, trumpet-like closing flourish. The call is a "check", longer-drawn but softer-edged than the Blackcap’s, plus a muted "tcherr".

Facts

Wingspan

22 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

sylviid warblers

Sylviidae

Read more

This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:

  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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