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Ibercaja Aula en Red
Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze
380a Iberian Chiffchaff
Iberian Chiffchaff. Autumn. 1st year (12-XI).
IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (Phylloscopus
ibericus)
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IDENTIFICATION
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11-12 cm. Green upperparts; white breast with
yellow streaks; dark legs; in wing, 7th and 8th
primaries have the same length, 9th primary has
the same length than 4rd or between 3rd and 4th
or between 4th and 5th, emargination to 5th primary.
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Chiffchaff
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9
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Iberian Chiffchaff.
Pattern of breast, colour of legs and wing
formula.
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SIMILAR SPECIES
Chiffchaff has duller colours and 6th, 7th and
8th primaries have the same length. Willow
Warbler has similar plumage, but emarginated
only to 6th primary. Bonelli’s Warbler has
white underparts and yellow rump. Wood Warbler has 10th primary shorter than primary coverts and with contrast between the yellow head
and upper breast and pure white underparts.
Melodious Warbler is bigger, with uniform
yellow underparts and broad bill on the base.
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Willow Warbler
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Ibercaja Aula en Red
Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze
380a Iberian Chiffchaff
SEXING
Plumage of both sexes alike.
AGEING
3 types of age can be recognized:
Juvenile with fresh plumage.
1st year autumn/2nd year spring with moult
limit between moulted fresh wing feathers and
juvenile reatined.
Adult without moult limits on the wing.
Bonelli’s Warbler
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Iberian Chiffchaff. Ageing. Moult limit on wing coverts: top adult; bottom 1st year.
Wood Warbler
MOULT
Complete postbreeding moult, usually finished
late September. Partial postjuvenile moult, including lesser and median coverts and inner
greater coverts; some birds can moult all greater
coverts, tertials and some flight feathers; usually
finished in September.
NOTE: this is a just described species, so its
moult strategy is not well known.
I b er i a n
Chiffchaff.
Extent
of
postjuvenile
moult.
Melodious Warbler
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Ibercaja Aula en Red
Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze
380a Iberian Chiffchaff
PHENOLOGY
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STATUS IN ARAGON
Summer visitor. Breeds scarcely in Pyrenees
and Sistema Iberico.
Iberian Chiffchaff. Autumn. Tail pattern: 1st year
(12-IX).
Iberian Chiffchaff. Autumn. Head pattern: 1st year
(12-IX).
Iberian Chiffchaff. Autumn. Breast pattern: 1st year
(12-IX).
Iberian Chiffchaff. Autumn. 1st year: pattern of wing
(12-IX).
Iberian Chiffchaff. Autumn. Upperparts pattern: 1st
year (12-IX).
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