Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta) - HBW 11, p. 638
French: Hypolaïs polyglotte
German: Orpheusspötter
Spanish: Zarcero Políglota
Taxonomy: Sylvia polyglotta Vieillot, 1817, France.
Sister-species of H. icterina, the two being fairly close to the sister-species pair formed by H. languida and H. olivetorum. Monotypic.
Distribution: Breeds France (except N parts) and Iberia E to S Belgium, SW Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia and W Croatia, and in NW Africa; non-breeding W Africa.
- Least Concern
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A male singing on two different twigs Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (Monotypic species)
Julien Rochefort 8 June 2007 3 years ago 43 sec 4.8 -
A bird perched on a bush, catching and eating an insect and then another bird singing on a wire. Codos, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (Monotypic species)
Jesús Laborda 22 May 2008 1 year ago 1 min 1 sec 4.8 -
An adult bird calling and moving from one tree to another Ocentejo, Alto Tajo Natural Park, Castile-La Mancha, Spain (Monotypic species)
Alex García 31 August 2007 2 years ago 18 sec 4.6 -
A bird singing Lynx Garden, Bellaterra, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 17 June 2005 5 years ago 47 sec 4.2 -
A bird on a branch, looking around Doñana National Park, Andalucia, Spain (Monotypic species)
Helmut Schenkel Br... 31 March 2007 3 years ago 10 sec 4 -
A bird in a bush, foraging and calling Lynx Garden, Bellaterra, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 17 June 2007 2 years ago 51 sec 3.9
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adult on a grass Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France (Monotypic species)
Georges Olioso 4 June 2005 1 year ago 3.5 -
Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta); male singing in a willow. Camargue, France. Camargue, France
Sascha Rösner 13 June 2010 6 weeks ago 3.3 -
Adult male Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Monotypic species)
Alain Fossé 19 May 2010 7 weeks ago 3.2 -
An adult in the hand. Segur de Calafell, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (Monotypic species)
Alberto Soria 15 May 1992 34 weeks ago 3 -
An adult in the hand. Segur de Calafell, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (Monotypic species)
Alberto Soria 15 May 1992 34 weeks ago 3 -
Adult male singing Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Monotypic species)
Alain Fossé 11 May 2009 1 year ago 3
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A male singing. Essonne, France
Julien Rochefort 6 May 2008 1 year ago 4.8 -
Alarm calls. Two birds. Forêt de Fontainebleau, France
Julien Rochefort 30 July 2004 1 year ago 4.5 -
One of the first territories of this expanding species in Westphalia. Frömern, Fröndenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
(Monotypic species)
Jan Ole Kriegs _ L... 22 June 2009 1 year ago 3
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