Phylloscopus humei
Silhouette: Jiekun He · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
Hume's leaf warbler or Hume's warbler (Phylloscopus humei) is a small leaf warbler which breeds in the mountains of inner Asia. This warbler is migratory and winters mainly in India. The English name and the specific humei commemorate Allan Octavian Hume, a British civil
servant and ornithologist based in India. The genus name Phylloscopus is from Ancient Greek phullon, "leaf", and skopos, "seeker" (from skopeo, "to watch"). Like most similar songbirds, it was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.
Hume's leaf warbler is one of the smallest "Old World warblers". Like most other leaf warblers, it has greenish upperparts and off-white underparts. 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 colours. It also has a dark lower mandible and legs.
Its song is buzzing and high-pitched. The best distinction from the yellow-browed warbler is the more disyllabic call. While the eastern and western Hume's leaf warblers already show noticeable... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jiuzhaigou National Park | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 2 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Ranthambore National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 6 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 9 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Langtang National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 11 | Hemis National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Royal Bardia National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 13 | Gir National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 14 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 15 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Hume's Warbler sighting in Almaty on a given day, based on 61 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 12th most-seen of the 73 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and September–October
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Hume's Warbler in Almaty on a given day, against about 10% in February–March and July, the lowest months.
Between 4 and 7 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hume's Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 54
Of the 54 cities where we can rate Hume's Warbler sightings, Almaty ranks 5th at about 30%. The best odds are in Dushanbe (Tajikistan, about 50%), Tashkent (Uzbekistan, about 50%) and Dehradun (India, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hume's Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Almaty (61 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
