Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti) - HBW 11, p. 595
French: Bouscarle de Cetti
German: Seidensänger
Spanish: Cetia Ruiseñor
Other common names: Cetti’s Bush-warbler
Taxonomy: Sylvia cetti Temminck, 1820, Sardinia.
Geographical variation largely clinal; race orientalis poorly defined, intermediate between nominate and albiventris. Birds from NE Italy and Balkans E to W Asia Minor, larger than nominate and slightly more olive above and greyer below, described as race sericea, possibly worthy of recognition. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- cetti (Temminck, 1820) - W Europe (S from S England) and N coast of Mediterranean (S from S Austria), throughout Greece and much of S Balkans E to W & NW Black Sea coast; also NW Africa (Morocco E to Tunisia).
- orientalis Tristram, 1867 - Crimea and Turkey E to Iraq, N Iran (foothills of Zagros Mts) and N Afghanistan.
- albiventris Severtsov, 1873 - N Kazakhstan (from Volga Delta and lower R Ural) E to L Balkhash and extreme NW China (NW Xinjiang), S to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and NW Afghanistan; non-breeding S Iran, S Afghanistan and Pakistan (S to Sind) and NW India (Punjab, Rajasthan).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male perched and singing Locality Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve, Kent County, England, Great Britain (ssp cetti)
Greg Baker 29 May 2000 1 year ago 57 sec 4.6 -
A bird moving around in a tree Locality Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Keith Blomerley 1 May 2009 4 years ago 25 sec 4.2 -
Bird foraging in low bushes. Locality Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain
Eric Van Marck 2 December 2010 2 years ago 25 sec 3.5 -
a bird on reeds, singing Locality Jarama River, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 1 June 2008 4 years ago 22 sec 3.3 -
A bird perched in a tree and flying away. Locality North Holland Province, Netherlands
Yoel Jimenez 11 June 2011 1 year ago 28 sec 3 -
A bird in dead vegetation, singing at the end of the clip Locality Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Keith Blomerley 1 May 2009 4 years ago 21 sec 3
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on a branch
Locality Wadi Samak, Golan Heights, Israel
Lior Kislev 2 May 2011 2 years ago 4.6 -
A male in early spring
Locality Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain
CarlosNaza 22 March 2011 2 years ago 4.5 -
Adult
Locality Skala Kallonis, Lesbos Island, North Aegean Region, Greece
Paul Cools 30 April 2006 24 weeks ago 4.2 -
Cetti's Warbler at Wadi Samak,Golan Heights, Israel
Locality Israel
Lior Kislev 23 June 2010 2 years ago 4.2 -
female to be ringed/banded
Locality Leucate, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Georges Olioso 30 October 2009 3 years ago 4 -
Undertail showing the only 10 rectrices in this warbler and the white-tipped undertail-coverts.
Locality Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (ssp cetti)
Alain Fossé 12 September 2010 2 years ago 3.8
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Soft calls and song. Locality S'Albufera des Grau Natural Park, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
(ssp cetti)
Carlos Fabregat 27 September 2011 1 year ago 5 -
Typic song; marshes of Etang de Vendres Locality Vendres Lagoon, Étangs Littoraux, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
jacques Prevost 18 April 2002 49 weeks ago 4 -
A sequence of song. Locality S'Albufera des Grau Natural Park, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
(ssp cetti)
Carlos Fabregat 27 September 2011 1 year ago 4 -
Song of a male Locality Ephesus, Turkey
(ssp cetti)
Stuart Fisher 30 April 2007 4 years ago 4 -
male singing one time Locality Tàrrega, Lleida Province, Catalonia, Spain
Ferran Vaquero 26 April 2011 2 years ago 3.3
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