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Willow Warbler
| Characteristics: |
Just under 11 cm long and weighs between 8 and 10 g. The Willow Warbler is one of the commonest European birds. It is rather drab in appearance being basically olive-brown on the upperparts with whitish underparts washed faintly yellow. Its most striking plumage feature is a pale yellow stripe above the eye and a slightly darker stripe through the eye. Its legs are usually light brown. |
| Call: |
Its contact call is a rising hooet, faintly disyllabic. The Willow Warbler's song is characterised by its descending scale, opening with a rapid series clear, high notes the pitch dropping evenly to end with a terminal flourish. |
| Habitat: |
The Willow Warbler is found in a wide variety of habitats, from the lowlands to high mountains. These include larger gardens and parks with tree populations, bright woodlands and forest outskirts as well as wetland forests and bushes on the banks of waterways.
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| Distribution: |
This species is widespread across Central and Northern Europe and Asia, arriving in April and departing in September. |
| Biology: |
The Willow Warbler feeds on insects and their larvae, spiders and on berries in late summer and autumn. The domed nest is made of grass and other parts of plants. It is well hidden close to the ground and between plants or under low bushes. Full clutches consist of 5 to 7 whitish eggs finely speckled with red. Clutches from the beginning of May; 1 or 2 broods a year.
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