Brooks's leaf warbler
Appearance
Brooks's leaf warbler | |
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Brook's leaf warbler (above), and Hume's leaf warbler (below); illustration by Keulemans, 1881 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Phylloscopidae |
Genus: | Phylloscopus |
Species: | P. subviridis
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Binomial name | |
Phylloscopus subviridis (Brooks, 1872)
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Brooks's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus subviridis) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae.
Distribution and habitat
It is found in Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests.
The common name commemorates the ornithologist and bird artist Allan Cyril Brooks.[2]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 67.
- Brooks's Leaf Warbler 2010. [1]