Tytler's Leaf-warbler

Taxobox
name = Tytler's Leaf-Warbler
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref = [BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/17204/all Phylloscopus tytleri] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 10 July 2007.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Sylviidae
genus = "Phylloscopus"
species = "P. tytleri"
binomial = "Phylloscopus tytleri"
binomial_authority = Brooks, 1872
synonyms =

The Tytler's Leaf-Warbler ("Phylloscopus tytleri") is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It passes through the Western Himalayas to winter in southern India, particulaly in the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.Rasmussen, PC (1998) Tytler’s Leaf Warbler "Phylloscopus tytleri": non-breeding distribution, morphological discrimination, and ageing. FORKTAIL 14:17-29 [http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/publications/forktail/14pdfs/Rasmussen-Tylter%27s.pdf PDF] ]

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss. It breeds in the Northwestern Himalayan region and is suspected to breed in the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas. [Whymper, S. L. (1911) Birds nesting in the Nila Valley (Garhwal). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 20: 1157–1160]

The name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Christopher Tytler.

Identification

In museum specimens, the thin bill is clear and there is a long exposed nasal groove along the bill. The rictal bristles are short and few and the feathering at the base of the beak is reduced giving a very pointed face profile. The lower mandible is not flesh coloured in "tytleri" as it is found in most "trochiloides" and it is not dark black as in "Phylloscopus collybita tristis". They do not have any wing bars.

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