Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
Phylloscopus tenellipes Swinhoe, 1860 (0, 1)
Photo © By Francesco Veronesi from Italy - Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler - Thailand_S4E7133, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45494274
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.
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).
