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GARDEN WARBLER
  Bird Call
| Characteristics: |
14 cm long, weighs 17 to 19 g. Male and female identical, amongst the plainest of all our birds. Characteristic soft grey patch on neck-side, strong lead-grey legs and feet. |
| Call: |
The contact call is a Blackcap-like tacc tacc tacc but it is less vocal than most warblers. The song however is rich and varied, similar to a Blackcap but is more sustained and lacks Blackcap’s terminal flourish.
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| Habitat: |
Found in deciduous and mixed woodlands with sufficient ground cover. On migration it occurs in a wide variety of habitats such as parks, gardens and hedgerows, but is always very unobtrusive in its habits and is easily overlooked
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| Distribution: |
The Garden Warbler is a summer visitor to most of
Northern and Central Europe (end of April to September/October) and
winters in Africa. |
| Biology: |
Garden Warblers feed on insects and spiders and additionally on berries in the late summer and autumn. The nest is loosely woven from blades of grass and can be found in dense plant vegetation and in bushes that are low to the ground. The female lays between three and five eggs with varied colouring. The base colour is a whitish to light brownish colour with brown and grey speckles that are sometimes concentrated at the larger end. 1 or sometimes 2 broods a year; first clutch from mid-May. |
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