Typical warbler
♂ Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla )
The Warblers (Sylvia ) are part of a genus of passerine birds belonging to the family of the warbler -like ( Sylviidae ).
The name comes from the Old High German warbler of Gra - Smucka = gray panties. The coloring of the Warblers is more or less gray-brown.
Warblers live in forests and dense shrubbery and slip sent by low thickets. Some species are happy in gardens. Her vocals are often noisy and characteristic, so that you can recognize it and distinguish good.
- 2.1 Notes and references
- 2.2 Literature
System
The genus is one of the larger in the family Sylviidae and includes 26 species of which occur in Europe 12. It consists such as the genus Phylloscopus of two very divergent part lines that actually both should have the status of species, because they are taxonomically equal.
Species
- Blackcap ( S. atricapilla )
- Garden Warbler ( S. borin)
These two species are sister species and put together with " Pseudoalcippe " Abyssinia, the sister group of all other Sylvia species dar.
- Eibischgrasmücke (p. althaea )
- Band singer Meis (p. boehmi )
- Yemen -Mei Singer (p. buryi )
- White Subalpine Warbler (see cantillans )
- Whitethroat ( S. communis)
- Spectacled Warbler (p. conspicillata )
- Lesser Whitethroat ( S. curruca ) is the closest relative of Orpheus warbler
- Dainicagrasmücke (p. dainica )
- Sahara warbler ( S. deserti )
- Atlas warbler ( S. deserticola )
- Layard -Mei Singer (p. layardi )
- Acacia warbler ( S. leucomelaena )
- Brown -Mei Singer ( S. lugens )
- Orpheus warbler ( S. hortensis )
- Sardinian Warbler ( S. melanocephala )
- Warbler (p. melanothorax )
- Bush warbler ( S. minula )
- Tamariskengrasmücke (p. mystacea )
- Desert Warbler ( S. nana ) is the closest relative of the Whitethroat
- Barred Warbler (p. nisoria )
- Mask warbler ( S. rueppelli )
- Sardengrasmücke ( S. sarda )
- Meis singer (p. subcaeruleum )
- Dartford warbler ( S. undata )