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Yemen Warbler
Curruca buryi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1913)
Sylviidae — Sylviid Babblers
Yemen Warbler, Curruca buryi, is a passerine of the Sylviidae family that breeds in montane south-west Saudi Arabia and south-west Yemen on the south-eastern slopes of the Sarawat Mountains. It is a bird of Acacia woodland, hedgerows and other bushy mountain habitats, and in Yemen it is often linked with Vachellia origena woodland, while in Saudi Arabia it also uses African juniper woodland. First described in 1913, it was originally placed in Parisoma before being moved to Curruca. Its breeding season runs from March to July.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sylviidae — Sylviid Babblers
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: montane sw Saudi Arabia and sw Yemen (sw Arabian Pen.)
