Sulphur-breasted Warbler
Phylloscopus ricketti
Small leaf warbler with vivid yellow underparts and greenish upperparts. Readily distinguished from most other leaf warblers in range by bright coloration; Hartert’s can be similar but has a weaker brow pattern, is paler yellow on the underparts, and has a habit of shaking its wings--a habit lacking in Sulphur-breasted. Breeds in mixed hill forests but can turn up in a variety of wooded habitats on migration. Song is a series of bright, high-pitched accelerating notes. Call is a bright “pi-pew.”
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Phylloscopus ricketti
- Authority
- (Slater, HH, 1897)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Phylloscopidae
- Genus
- Phylloscopus
Range and habitat
- Breeding range
- OR : ec, s China
- Non-breeding range
- se Asia
- Migration
- Complete migrants
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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