Phylloscopus humei (Hume’s leaf warbler)
Phylloscopus humei – Hume’s leaf warbler (click to enlarge)
| Common name | Hume’s leaf Warbler |
| Scientific name | Phylloscopus humei |
| Family | Phylloscopidae |
| Description | Hume’s leaf warbler is one of the smallest “Old World warblers”. Like most other leaf warblers, it has greenish upperparts and off-white under parts. With its long supercilium, crown stripe and yellow-margined tertial remiges, it is very similar to the yellow-browed warbler (P. inornatus). However, it has only one prominent light wing bar, just a faint vestige of the second shorter wing bar, and overall duller colors. It also has a dark lower mandible and legs. It has buffish or whitish wing bars and supercilium. The legs are normally blackish brown. It prefers coniferous forests and sub-alpine shrubberies for their breeding in an altitude of 2100-3600m and in winter it migrates & breeds below 1800m. |