Yellow-browed Warbler

Phylloscopus inornatus (Blyth, 1842)

≈9.9 cmLength6.6 gWeight

This small leaf warbler has a single long yellow supercilium and two wing-bars, and moves almost constantly.

Busiest months: October and December · Most records: China, Thailand, Vietnam

Looks like Hume's Leaf Warbler, Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Long yellow supercilium
Two yellowish-white wing-bars
Yellow feather edges on tertials
Green upperparts; white underparts

Voice

Call is sharp, often a two-syllable “tseeweest”, and especially loud for such a small bird.

Similar species

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Hume's Leaf Warbler is duller, with an indistinct second wing-bar and dark legs and lower mandible; its call is more like “chwee”.

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Pallas's Leaf Warbler has a distinct yellow median crown-stripe and rump patch, which Yellow-browed Warbler lacks.

Where and when it's recorded

Yellow-browed Warbler has been recorded at 2,022 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 69 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Mai Po Nature ReserveHong Kong (China)1,753 records
Yeliu IBATaiwan (China)1,603 records
Tai Po Kau Nature ReserveHong Kong (China)1,480 records

More places

Po ToiHong Kong (China)1,249 records
Matsu – Dongyin Vegetable FarmChina1,014 records
St Mary'sUnited Kingdom951 records
Nanhui DongtanChina867 records
Kinmen – Botanical GardenChina719 records
Lam Tsuen ValleyHong Kong (China)708 records
Kinmen – Doumen Hiking TrailChina700 records

Countries and regions with the most records

China Thailand Vietnam United Kingdom Cambodia South Korea India Bangladesh

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

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.

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Questions

How big is the Yellow-browed Warbler?

The Yellow-browed Warbler is about ≈9.9 cm long and weighs around 6.6 g.

Where does the Yellow-browed Warbler live?

Its breeding range: Palearctic: central Russia and northern Kazakhstan to eastern Russia, northeastern China and North Korea. It is most often recorded in China, Thailand and Vietnam.