Grey-hooded Warbler Seicercus xanthoschistos
(aka Phylloscopus xanthoschistos)
Grey-hooded Warbler, Shemgang, Bhutan, March 2008 - click for larger image

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.
Grey-hooded Warbler, Shemgang, Bhutan, March 2008 - click for larger image 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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