Sylvia nisoria
Silhouette: Martin Bulla, based on John Cox's illustration · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The barred warbler (Curruca nisoria) is a species of bird in the warbler family Sylviidae which breeds across temperate regions of central and eastern Europe and western and central Asia. This passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical eastern Africa.
It is the largest Curruca warbler, 15.5–17 cm in length and weighing 22–36 g, mainly grey above and whitish below. Adult males are dark grey above with white tips on the wing coverts and tail feathers, and heavily barred below. The female is similar but slightly paler and has only light barring. Young birds are buffy grey-brown above, pale buff below, and have very little barring, with few obvious distinctive features; they can easily be confused with garden warblers, differing in the slight barring on the tail coverts and the pale fringes on the wing feathers, and their slightly larger size. The eye has a yellow iris in adults, dark in immatures; the bill is blackish with a paler base, and the legs stout, grey-brown.
Within the genus Curruca it is highly distinctive; the barred underside is shared only with the Cyprus warbler, which has black barring and an entirely different overall colour pattern. The... Wikipedia →
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia | |
| 2 | Białowieża National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 3 | Fertő-Hanság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 4 | Tsavo West National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 5 | Biebrza National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 6 | Samburu National Reserve | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 7 | Hortobágy National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 8 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 9 | Tsavo East National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 10 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Barred Warbler sighting in Jerusalem on a given day, based on 458 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 69th most-seen of the 192 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Barred Warbler in Jerusalem on a given day, against under 5% in June–August and October–March, the lowest months. That is one of Jerusalem's driest months, with about 5 mm of rain against 90 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Barred Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 16 cities where we can rate Barred Warbler sightings, Jerusalem ranks 2nd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, about 10%).
Same genus: Sylvia
The closest relatives of the Barred Warbler that you can see in Jerusalem (genus Sylvia, Sylvia Warblers) are Blackcap (about 80%), Lesser Whitethroat (about 60%) and Whitethroat (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Barred Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Jerusalem (458 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.
