Description:

Medium-sized robust-looking bush-warbler with fairly short rounded wings and tail, short and fine bill. Very white on breast and with greyish-white supercilium. Compared to others shorter and less prominent supercilium, greyish (rather than olive) breast sides and flanks, dull white tips to long greyish-brown undertail-coverts.

Distribution:

Rare passage migrant through the western parts of Ghizer and Diamer districts. Mainly found in swampy lowland areas with thick cover of reeds and sparse bushes; also in areas of damp meadows, tall grass stands, hedgerows and overgrown orchards.

Behavior:

Forages low down in thick vegetation, where hops in manner of a mouse or wren through bases of vegetation and undergrowth, presence often revealed only by loud, distinctive song. Feeds mostly on items taken from ground. Food consists mostly of damselflies, aphids, molluscs and other small invertebrates; occasionally small seeds.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Cetti's Warbler in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Cetti's Warbler

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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