Grey-hooded Warbler Phylloscopus / Seicercus xanthoschistos

Grey-hooded Warbler Phylloscopus xanthoschistos
(aka Seicercus xanthoschistos)

Bhutan
March 2008

The Grey-hooded Warbler is distributed from northern Pakistan through the Himalayas to south China and Myanmar. It is found in open forest where it hunts small insects and spiders.

It has a grey head and mantle with a dark eye-stripe, whitish supercilium and faint crown stripe. Underparts are yellow.

It may well be better placed in the genus Phylloscopus according to recent DNA studies and other characteristics.

There are recordings on xeno-canto and additional information is available via Avibase.

Grey-hooded Warbler, Dochu La, Thimphu, Bhutan, March 2008 - click for larger image

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