Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus borealoides)
About the Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
The Sakhalin leaf warbler (Phylloscopus borealoides) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It is found in Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Japan; it winters to the Amami and Okinawa islands and Indochina. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It has a long white supercilium and broad, dark brown eye-stripes. Its crown, upper parts, and bill are also dark brown. It has greenish-brown cheeks and its ear-coverts are mottled. Its bill has a pink base that extends to the lower mandible. Its legs are pale pinkish-brown. It is easily confused with the pale-legged leaf warbler. One possible distinguishing feature is that its upperparts are slightly more greenish. It is more easily distinguished by its lower-pitched vocalizations, but some overlap does exist in the species' pitch ranges.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 171 recordings for this species: 33 CC BY-NC-SA · 7 CC BY-NC-ND. 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.
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Listed as recorded in China, India, Japan, Malaysia 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.