Tytler's leaf warbler (''Phylloscopus tytleri'') is a songbird

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. Like all leaf warblers, it was formerly placed in the "

Old World warbler Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxonomic confusion. Two families were split out initially, the ci ...

" assemblage, but now belongs to the new leaf-warbler

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Phylloscopidae. It is found in

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, and

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. It passes through the Western Himalayas to winter in southern India, particularly in the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.Rasmussen, PC (1998) Tytler’s Leaf Warbler ''Phylloscopus tytleri'': non-breeding distribution, morphological discrimination, and ageing. FORKTAIL 14:17-2
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Its natural

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is subtropical or tropical moist

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s. It is threatened by

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. It breeds in the Northwestern Himalayan region and is suspected to breed in the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas.Whymper, S. L. (1911) Birds nesting in the Nila Valley (Garhwal). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 20: 1157–1160 The name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Christopher Tytler. PhylloscopusTytleri

Identification

In museum specimens, the thin bill is clear and there is a long exposed nasal groove along the bill. The rictal bristles are short and few and the feathering at the base of the beak is reduced giving a very pointed face profile. The lower mandible is not flesh coloured in ''tytleri'' as in most ''trochiloides'' and it is not dark black as in ''Phylloscopus collybita tristis''. They do not have any wing bars.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3315824 Tytler's leaf warbler Birds of Pakistan Birds of North India Tytler's leaf warbler Taxonomy articles created by Polbot