Warblers
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Blackcap ♂ ( Sylvia atricapilla ) |
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| Scopoli , 1769 |
The warblers ( Sylvia ) are a genus of songbirds that belongs to the family of warblers (Sylviidae).
The name warbler comes from the Old High German of Gra-smucka = gray panties. The color of the warblers is more or less gray-brown.
Warblers live in forests and dense shrubbery and skilfully slip through low thickets . Some species like to come into gardens . Their singing is often loud and characteristic, so that you can easily recognize and distinguish them.
Systematics
The genus is one of the larger in the Sylviidae family and includes 26 species, 12 of which are found in Europe . Like the genus Phylloscopus, it consists of two very divergent sub-lines, which should actually both have the status of genera, since they are taxonomically equal.
species
- Blackcap ( S. atricapilla )
- Garden warbler ( S. borin )
These two species are sister species and together with »Pseudoalcippe« abyssinia represent the sister group of all other Sylvia species.
- Common warbler ( S. althaea )
- Banded tit-singer ( S. boehmi )
- Yemen tit-warbler ( S. buryi )
- Whitebeard Warbler ( S. cantillans )
- Blackcap ( S. communis )
- Spectacled warbler ( S. conspicillata )
- Klappergrasmücke ( S. curruca ) is the closest relative of Orpheus warbler
- Saharan warbler ( S. deserti )
- Atlas warbler ( S. deserticola )
- Layard tit-warbler ( S. layardi )
- Acacia warbler ( S. leucomelaena )
- Brown tit-warbler ( S. lugens )
- Orpheus warbler ( S. hortensis )
- Velvet warbler ( S. melanocephala )
- Shed warbler ( S. melanothorax )
- Busch warbler ( S. minula )
- Tamarisk warbler ( S. mystacea )
- The desert warbler ( S. nana ) is the closest relative of the black warbler
- Sparrowhawk Warbler ( S. nisoria )
- Masked warbler ( S. rueppelli )
- Sardinian warbler ( S. sarda )
- Great Warbler ( S. subcaeruleum )
- Provence warbler ( S. undata )
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Shirihai, G. Gargallo, AJ Helbig: Sylvia Warblers - Identification, taxonomy and phylogeny of genus Sylvia . C. Helm, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-3984-9 .
literature
- H.-G. Bauer, E. Bezzel, W. Fiedler : The compendium of birds in Central Europe. Everything about biology, endangerment and protection. Volume 2: Passeriformes - passerine birds. 2., completely revised Edition. AULA-Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2005, ISBN 3-89104-648-0 .
Web links
- Various warblers and their voices (www.vogelstimmen-wehr.de)