Hume's Warbler

Hume's Warbler

Phylloscopus humei

Silhouette: Jiekun He · PhyloPic

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

In 3 days ~10%

135 Verified sightings at Barcelona
4,969 In all 15 parks From 2019 to 2026
February Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Hume's Warbler

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 →

Sounds

Song0:30

China · 2026

© Peter Boesman · XC1147704 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:24

India · 2026

© Ding Li Yong · XC1087910 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:17

Thailand · 2026

© Peter Ericsson · XC1085995 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Jiuzhaigou National Park 🇨🇳 China
~50%
2 Keoladeo National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%
3 Bandhavgarh National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
4 Ranthambore National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
5 Doi Inthanon National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~20%
6 Jim Corbett National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
7 Satpura National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
8 Chitwan National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
~10%
9 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
10 Langtang National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
~10%
11 Hemis National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
12 Royal Bardia National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
~10%
13 Gir National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
14 Royal Manas National Park 🇧🇹 Bhutan
<5%
15 Wadden Sea National Park 🇩🇪 Germany
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Dushanbe 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
~50%
2 Tashkent 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
~50%
3 Dehradun 🇮🇳 India
~40%
4 Islamabad 🇵🇰 Pakistan
~40%
5 Almaty 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
~30%
6 Mashhad 🇮🇷 Iran
~30%
7 Bishkek 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
~30%
8 Chandigarh 🇮🇳 India
~20%
9 Jabalpur 🇮🇳 India
~20%
10 Jammu 🇮🇳 India
~20%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Hume's Warbler in Barcelona?

Rare

Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Hume's Warbler sighting in Barcelona on a given day, based on 135 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 92nd most-seen of the 215 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Hume's Warbler in Barcelona?

January and February

In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hume's Warbler in Barcelona on a given day, against under 5% in March to December, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Hume's Warbler?

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.

Is Barcelona the best place to see a Hume's Warbler?

45th of 54

Of the 54 cities where we can rate Hume's Warbler sightings, Barcelona ranks 45th at under 5%. The best odds are in Dushanbe (Tajikistan, about 50%), Tashkent (Uzbekistan, about 50%) and Dehradun (India, about 40%).

Where does the Hume's Warbler sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Hume's Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Barcelona (135 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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