Warblers

All 5 species of warblers on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

Conservation status

Where they live

Recorded in 60 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

Where to see them

Did you know…?

• It sings on a short climbing flight above the brambles.

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• Its courtship is among the most persistent of any Iberian bird: the male chases the female offering her a blade of grass in his bill, she attacks him, he backs off and comes at it again until she accepts him.

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• On sunny days it is bold and shows itself on top of the bushes, but in cloudy or wet weather it becomes extremely secretive.

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• Resident and closely tied to scrub; fires hit it hard.

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• Spain holds most of the world population of the species: what happens to the Mediterranean scrub here determines its global future.

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• It is resident and highly sensitive to cold: a particularly hard winter can crash the populations at the northern edge of its range, as happened in England in the 1960s, when it came close to disappearing from the country.

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• The black spotting on the male's breast is unique among the warblers of its genus and makes it the only one identifiable at a glance even in poor light.

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Ecosystems