Gansu leaf warbler
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| Species: | P. kansuensis
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| Phylloscopus kansuensis Meise, 1933
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The Gansu leaf warbler (Phylloscopus kansuensis) is a small passerine bird known only from China. It belongs to the leaf warbler genus Phylloscopus within the family Phylloscopidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Pallas's warbler (P. proregulus) but is now regarded as a separate species based on differences in voice and cytochrome-b gene sequences.[2]
It is 10 cm long, slightly larger than Pallas's warbler. It has greenish upperparts, pale underparts and a pale rump. The head has a long white supercilium and a pale stripe along the centre of the crown. The wings have one conspicuous wingbar, a slight second bar and whitish edges to the tertials.[3]
The song is very different from Pallas's warbler and consists of a thin, high-pitched note followed by a series of accelerating notes and finally a trill.[3]
It is known to breed only in Gansu and Qinghai provinces in northern China. Its wintering grounds are uncertain but probably lie in Yunnan province in southern China.[3] It is found up to 3,200 metres above sea-level in deciduous forest with some spruce and juniper.[3][4] It is not currently known to be threatened with extinction and so is classed as a species of Least Concern by BirdLife International.[4]
References
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- ^ Martens, Jochen; Dieter Thomas Tietze, Siegfried Eck & Michael Veith (2004) Radiation and species limits in the Asian Pallas's warbler complex (Phylloscopus proregulus s.l.), Journal of Ornithology, 145 (3): 206-222. [Abstract only]
- ^ a b c d MacKinnon, John & Karen Phillipps (2000) A Field Guide to the Birds of China, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2009) Species factsheet: Phylloscopus kansuensis. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 28 June 2009
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