Description:

A medium-sized leaf-warbler with comparatively short tail and prominent supercilium. From Greenish by long, slender, mainly dark bill, shorter tail, lack of wing-bar. Supercilium tends to look finer, and is offset by rather broad and well-defined dark olive lores and eye-stripe. Has dark greenish cast to upperparts.

Distribution:

Common summer visitor in Astore, Ghizer, Gilgit, Nagar and Diamer districts. Breeds in coniferous forest of pine, fir or oak and subalpine shrubberies with birch and willow, at 2400-3600m. Winters mainly in broadleaved forest, above 900m.

Behavior:

Unobtrusively forages low down in thickets, edges of forest undergrowth and in middle levels of conifer. Forages mostly by gleaning from leaves and branches in rather slow or ponderous manner; also makes short sallies after flying insects. Food mostly small insects and larvae, such as springtails, aphids, small moths and small spiders.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

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

Seasonal Occurrence of Tytler's Leaf 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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