Tamarisk warbler
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Tamarisk warbler ( Sylvia mystacea ) |
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The menetries's warbler ( Sylvia mystacea ) is a singing bird from the genus of Whitethroats ( Sylvia ). It occurs in southeastern Turkey and in the eastern Caucasus . Its name comes from the tamarisk , a shrub in which it often breeds.
features
At 12 to 13 centimeters in length, it is slightly smaller than the velvet warbler , which it looks very similar. She is more petite and has a shorter dark tail than this one.
Males have a dark, but not velvety black, but matt gray-black head, the blurred transition to the dark gray back already begins on the back of the head. The flanks are less gray, more whitish. The throat and chest are mostly white or pale pink in Turkey , but pink or brick red in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The eye ring is much less intense red, but matt brown.
Females have a sandy brown back and head of the same color, light brown flanks and a uniform beige-gray-white underside. Like that of the male, the eye ring is dull brown.
voice
The call is a tough "tseck", like the velvet warbler. She also shouts “chee'r'r'r”, similar to house sparrows .
The song is similar to that of the Velvet Warbler, but softer and slower.
Habitat and Distribution
The tamarisk warbler lives in open forests with undergrowth, in open, dry, higher-lying areas and on the edge of palm groves or watercourses. It winters around the Red Sea .
It occurs in southeast Turkey and in the eastern Caucasus on the west coast of the Caspian Sea to the Volga .
Reproduction
The nest is built in bushes, mostly tamarisks .
literature
- L. Svensson, PJ Grant, K. Mullarney, D. Zetterström: The new cosmos bird guide - All species of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07720-9
Web links
- Sylvia mystacea in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.