English: Radde’s Warbler, Radde’s Bush-warbler, Radde-s Leaf Warbler
Russian: Толстоклювая пеночка
Mongolian: Цангинаа дуучшувуу
German: Bartlaubsanger
French: Pouillot de Schwarz
Japanese: カラフトムジセッカ (Karafuto-mujisekka)
Body length: 11 ½-12 ½ cm.
Breeds in Siberia in the taiga; requires
glades beside watercourses with rank undergrowth. Migratory, winters in SE
Asia; rare autumn vagrant Europe.
Identification: Willow
Warbler size but sturdier, with slightly larger head (often with steeper
forehead in profile), stronger bill and legs. Rather dark brown with olive-grey
cast above, off-white below with warm yellow-buff (or more olive-brown) tone on
breast, flanks and, especially, vent and undertail-coverts. Strong pale
supercilium and dark eye-stripe. Told from Dusky Warbler by: thicker bill;
thicker and on average paler pinky-brown legs; in front of eye supercilium
dorsally more diffusely defined, broad and in fresh plumage yellow-buff, behind
eye usually whitish. A bit more sluggish in movements than Dusky, not so active
and restless.