The brown woodland warbler (''Phylloscopus umbrovirens'') is a species of
Old World warbler in the family
Phylloscopidae.
Distribution and habitat
It is found in
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Djibouti,
Eritrea
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,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Rwanda
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,
Saudi Arabia,
Somalia,
South Sudan,
Tanzania,
Uganda, and
Yemen. Its natural
habitats are boreal
forests, subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests, and subtropical or tropical dry
shrubland
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.
Status
The range of the brown woodland warbler is quite large, with its extent of occurrence being estimated at . Its population is assumed to be stable, though no accurate estimates of its size have been made. The 2016
IUCN Red List classifies the species as one of
least concern.
References
brown woodland warbler
Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
Birds of East Africa
Birds of the Horn of Africa
Birds of the Middle East
brown woodland warbler
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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