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
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A bird moving around in a tree Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Keith Blomerley 1 May 2009 1 year ago 25 sec 3.3 -
a bird on reeds, singing Jarama River, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 1 June 2008 1 year ago 22 sec 3.3 -
A bird in dead vegetation, singing at the end of the clip Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Keith Blomerley 1 May 2009 1 year ago 21 sec 3
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female to be ringed/banded Leucate, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Georges Olioso 30 October 2009 37 weeks ago 4 -
Cetti's Warbler at Wadi Samak,Golan Heights, Israel Israel
Lior Kislev 23 June 2010 4 weeks ago 3.8 -
Bird perched in hawthorn. Suffolk, England, UK (ssp cetti)
Mark Gurney 27 July 2008 1 year ago 3.3 -
An adult in the hand. Valldoreix, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp cetti)
Alberto Soria 12 September 1991 32 weeks ago 3 -
An adult in the hand. Valldoreix, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp cetti)
Alberto Soria 12 September 1991 32 weeks ago 3 -
A Cetti's Warbler in the hand (National Reserve of Seine Estuary, Le Havre, France) Normandie, France
Jérôme Fournier 26 August 2009 47 weeks ago 3
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Song of a male Ephesus, Turkey
(ssp cetti)
Stuart Fisher 30 April 2007 1 year ago 4.3
