Eastern Orphean Warbler
Curruca crassirostris (Cretzschmar, 1830)
Sylviidae — Sylviid Babblers
Eastern Orphean Warbler, Curruca crassirostris, is a passerine of the Sylviidae family that breeds from south-eastern Europe across central Asia. It winters in north-east Africa, south-west and south-east Arabia, southern Iran, southern Pakistan and India. In the breeding season it is found in open deciduous woodland. It is one of the larger typical warblers. Adult males have a plain grey back, a dark grey head, a black eye mask, a white throat, a long pointed bill and black legs. Females and young birds are paler-headed, with reddish underparts and a brownish tint to the grey back.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sylviidae — Sylviid Babblers
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: se Europe to c Asia
- Nonbreeding range
- ne Africa to sw, se Arabian Pen., s Iran, s Pakistan, India
