Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis)
About the Arctic Warbler
The Arctic warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) is a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and the northern Palearctic. It has established a foothold in North America, breeding in Alaska. This warbler is strongly migratory; the entire population winters in southeast Asia. It therefore has one of the longest migrations of any Old World insectivorous bird. It traditionally included populations that breed in Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and Japan, but genetic and vocal evidence strongly suggested these should be treated as separate species, and are all now considered distinct with the Kamchatka leaf warbler in Kamchatka, Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, and the Japanese leaf warbler in Japan (except Hokkaido).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 599 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Australia, China, Denmark, Finland in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitarecording
- Dusky WarblerPhylloscopus fuscatusrecording
- Eastern Bonelli's WarblerPhylloscopus orientalisrecording
- Green WarblerPhylloscopus nitidusrecording
- Greenish WarblerPhylloscopus trochiloidesrecording
- Hume's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus humeirecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.