Icterine Warbler

Hippolais icterina (Vieillot, 1817)

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For territory of Central Siberia it is mentioned only by V.S. Zhukov (1995). In birch forests near settlment Nikol'sk on July 19, 1982 he has met the group of 5-6 birds, flying on tops of trees. Bagged young bird have had rough growth of   feathers. In birch forest about city Nazarovo on June 16, 1983 the pair was building the nest on the thin birch at the height about 12 meters.

It has distribution in Western Eurasia from Scandinavia and east France by east up to valley of Ob' river and Salairsky mountain-ridge. In Western Siberia it is distriuted up to a mouth of the Kakva river, regions of Tyumen, Tara and Tomsk, in valley Ob' river up to 58° N. By south bird occurs up to northwest and north of Altay region (Stepanyan, 1990).

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