Eastern Crowned-Warbler

Eastern Crowned-Warbler

Phylloscopus coronatus

Silhouette: Jiekun He · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare
at Bangkok

In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%

353 Verified sightings at Bangkok
656 In all 8 parks From 2019 to 2026
September Best month
🌅 Crepuscular When it's spotted

About the Eastern Crowned-Warbler

The eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It inhabits boreal and temperate forests in the east Palearctic. The eastern crowned warbler is a medium-sized, rather robust and brightly coloured leaf warbler. It is dark olive-green above and white below with a strong head pattern of dark, grey lateral crown stripes with an indistinct yellowish median crown stripe. It also has a long yellowish-white supercilium with a dark stripe through the eye and dark lores and dusky yellow cheeks. It has a single pale wingbar. The square tail shows a slight fork. It has quite a strong, robust, pale-coloured bill and dark legs.

The eastern crowned warbler breeds in eastern Siberia from the Argun River eastwards and southwards into western Manchuria and into central Sichuan, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. It winters in south-east Asia from eastern India and Bangladesh to Java. It has occurred as a vagrant in western Europe with the first record for Great Britain being in County Durham in 2009; this was the fifth record for the Western Palearctic (UK and Scandinavia). Wikipedia →

Sounds

Song0:58

China · 2026

© Peter Boesman · XC1147692 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:46

China · 2025

© Mengshuai Ge · XC1007560 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Alarm call0:13

Russian Federation · 2011

© Geoff Carey · XC750911 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Nikko National Park 🇯🇵 Japan
~20%
2 Khao Sok National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~20%
3 Khao Luang National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~10%
4 Kaeng Krachan National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~10%
5 Taman Negara National Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~10%
6 Kerinci Seblat National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
<5%
7 Khao Yai National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
<5%
8 Cuc Phuong National Park 🇻🇳 Vietnam
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Sapporo 🇯🇵 Japan
~20%
2 Daejeon 🇰🇷 South Korea
~10%
3 Busan 🇰🇷 South Korea
~10%
4 Ningbo 🇨🇳 China
~10%
5 Hanoi 🇻🇳 Vietnam
~10%
6 Sendai 🇯🇵 Japan
~10%
7 Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 Malaysia
<5%
8 Seoul 🇰🇷 South Korea
<5%
9 Hangzhou 🇨🇳 China
<5%
10 Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing an Eastern Crowned-Warbler in Bangkok?

Rare

Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Crowned-Warbler sighting in Bangkok on a given day, based on 353 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 106th most-seen of the 277 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see an Eastern Crowned-Warbler in Bangkok?

September and October

In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eastern Crowned-Warbler in Bangkok on a given day, against under 5% in November to August, the lowest months. Those are among Bangkok's wettest months, with about 240 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in December.

What time of day is best to see an Eastern Crowned-Warbler?

Between 3 and 6 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eastern Crowned-Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.

Is Bangkok the best place to see an Eastern Crowned-Warbler?

13th of 22

Of the 22 cities where we can rate Eastern Crowned-Warbler sightings, Bangkok ranks 13th at under 5%. The best odds are in Sapporo (Japan, about 20%), Daejeon (South Korea, about 10%) and Busan (South Korea, about 10%).

Where does the Eastern Crowned-Warbler sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Eastern Crowned-Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Bangkok (353 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.

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