English: Barred Warbler, European Barred Warbler
Russian: Ястребиная славка  
Mongolian: Харсун зэржигэнэ
German: Sperbergrasmucke
French: Fauvette eperviere  
Japanese: シマムシクイ(Shima-mushikui)  

Body length:  15 ½ - 17cm.

Breeds in tall bushes with scattered trees in open country; shares habitat with Red-backed Shrike. Summer visitor; passage migrant in Britain, mainly on E coast (Aug-mid Oct, rare spring). May be seen flying between bushes, and spring in near-level song-flight.

Identification:  A large, long-tailed Sylvia. Wing-coverts and tertials ± pale-edged. White at tips old tail-feathers.

• Adult ♂: Iris bright yellow. Upperparts lead-grey, darkest on head; distinct white fringes to wing-coverts and tertials. Entire underparts closely and heavily vermiculated dark grey.
• Adult ♀/1st- year ♂: Like adult ♂, but iris slightly duller yellow, upperparts more brown-grey, barring below not so obvious and complete. (1st-year ♀ nearly unbarred, has browner tone above, and yellow-brown iris.)-1st-autumn: Grey-brown above, buffish-grey and unbarred below. Iris dark. Told by light buffish-grey tertial and covert fringes.