Wood Warbler

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Habitat and behaviour

Habitat: Mature oak/beech woodland (summer).
Diet: Insects.
Best time to spot: Spinning-coin trill song.

When to look

A summer visitor, typically in the UK from April to August. Numbers peak in May. See the May birding guide for what else is about. More on the season in Bird migration in Britain.

Taller bars mean more birds about. Grey means it is usually absent.

How rare is it?

The Wood Warbler sits in our Uncommon tier for the UK: regular, but you usually need the right place or the right season. It is Red-listed in Birds of Conservation Concern 5, the highest level of concern in the UK.

Recent UK sightings

Similar birds

• Willow WarblerCommon · Scrub
• Common ChiffchaffCommon · Woodland
• Greenish WarblerRare · Mature trees (rare passage)
• Iberian ChiffchaffEpic · Mature trees (rare migrant)
• Yellow-browed WarblerRare · Coastal woodland (autumn)
• Arctic WarblerRare · Coastal scrub (vagrant)

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