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Eastern Subalpine Warbler
Curruca cantillans (Pallas, 1764)
Sylviidae — Sylviid Babblers
Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Curruca cantillans, breeds from north-east Italy through south-eastern Europe to western Turkey, with further breeding populations in southern Italy and Sicily, and it winters in northern Africa. It is a small sylviid warbler of dry open country, especially on hill slopes with bushes used for nesting. The nest is placed low in shrubs or gorse, and the clutch contains 3–5 eggs. It is a bird of the southernmost parts of Europe, and the eastern form is set apart from the western by its plumage pattern.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sylviidae — Sylviid Babblers
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: ne Italy through se Europe to w Turkey. Also s Italy and Sicily.
- Nonbreeding range
- n AF
