Pale-legged Leaf Warbler

Phylloscopus tenellipes Swinhoe, 1860 (0, 1)

Photo © Phil Woollen - Bempton, Yorkshire, October 2024

STATUS

Eastern Russia to north-east China and North Korea. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

Confirmed by DNA analysis whereas a sight record in Dorset in October 2012 was either this species or Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides.

Pale pinkish legs and claws, grey mottled cheeks, throat and upper breast are a start to identification of this leaf warbler.

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BBRC RECORD

1). 2016 Isles of Scilly Lighthouse, St Agnes, 1CY+ male, found dead, 21st October, photo, DNA analysis.

(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 597; BOURC (2018), Ibis 160: 242).

P). 2024 Yorkshire Bempton Cliffs RSPB, first-winter, 25th September to 2nd October, sound recorded, photo.

(birding information services).