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unusual facts about Ménétries's Warbler


Menetries's Warbler

It is similar to female Sardinian and Subalpine Warblers but has plainer tertial feathers and more contrast between the pale back and dark tail.


1998 in birding and ornithology

An Eastern Bonelli's Warbler in Shetland in August is the third to be accepted as definitely this species.

Albertine Rift montane forests

The rare Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) survives only in this ecoregion as do L'Hoest's Monkey and a sub-species of Hamlyn's Monkey as well as many species of butterflies, and birds including Grauer's Warblers, Chapin's Flycatchers, and the Ruwenzori Turaco.

Alexander Wilson

Several species of bird are named after Wilson, including the Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Wilson's Plover, Wilson's Phalarope, Wilson's Snipe, and Wilson's Warbler.

Audubon's Warbler

The Audubon's Warbler (Setophaga auduboni or Setophaga coronata auduboni) is a small New World warbler.

Deforestation in the United States

Of the 28 forest bird species with habitat exclusively in that forest, Pimm claims four become extinct either wholly or mostly because of habitat loss, the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, and Bachman's Warbler.

Francesco Cetti

Cetti is commemorated in the name of the Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti, which was collected on Sardinia by Alberto della Marmora.

Great Cypress Swamp

The swamp also contains two regionally rare species, Swainson's Warbler and Black-throated Green Warbler.

Hickling Broad

Birds that visit the reserve during the winter include cranes, goldeneyes, shovelers and teals, while bitterns, marsh harriers, pochards, water rails and Cetti’s warblers stay for most of the year.

Hugh Whistler

Whistler's Warbler originally described as Seicercus burkii whistleri is now considered a full species Seicercus whistleri.

Kirtland's Warbler

There is a Kirtland's Warbler Wildlife Festival, which is sponsored in part by Kirtland Community College (which is named in honor of the bird and its habitat).

MacGillivray's Warbler

MacGillivray's Warblers are migratory and spend their summers in temporate forests located in the western United States, and in boreal forests of west Canada.

Radde's Warbler

The scientific name commemorates the German astronomer Ludwig Schwarz (1822-1894).

Rüppell's Warbler

This in turn is related to the species of Mediterranean and Middle East Sylvia warblers that have a naked eye-ring, namely the Subalpine Warbler, Sardinian Warbler and Ménétries's Warbler.

Savi's Warbler

The adult has an unstreaked grey-brown back, whitish grey underparts and a lack of throat streaks, which is a distinction from the River Warbler.

The Broads

The scarce Cetti's Warbler breeds in the Broads, and Britain's only breeding Common Cranes are found in the area.

Upcher's Warbler

Ehrenberg's original description of this bird was 'rather vague' and it was redescribed by Henry Baker Tristram in 1864, naming it Hippolais upcheri after his friend Henry Morris Upcher.

Western Bonelli's Warbler

This bird is named after the Italian ornithologist Franco Andrea Bonelli.

Winifred's Warbler

The genus Scepomycter has traditionally been considered monotypic, but in 2009 a closely related new species was described, the Rubeho Warbler.

Populations in the Rubeho-Ukaguru Mountains are the very similar Rubeho Warbler, and the status as vulnerable is for the "combined" species.


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