Description:

A small to medium-sized leaf-warbler, very similar to Tickell's. From Tickell's by colder brownish-grey upperparts lacking any greenish tones, greyish-white edges to remiges, and duller buffish underparts. Supercilium is bright sulphur-yellow, brighter than throat, and has grey-brown ear-coverts and sides of breast.

Distribution:

Common summer visitor western half of Gilgit-Baltistan, rare in Astore and Baltistan region. Occurs in dry stony mountain slopes, scree and boulder-strewn hillsides with low scattered juniper and other shrubs; also villages, mostly at 2000-3500m.

Behavior:

Forages mostly on the ground; nervously flicks wings from time to time, also creeps sideways on tree trunks in manner of a treecreeper, and shuffles along branches in manner of a nuthatch. Food mostly small insects, especially small beetles, including weevils, and larvae, also molluscs.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Sulphur-bellied Warbler in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Sulphur-bellied 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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