Moltoni's warbler

Moltoni's warbler (Sylvia subalpina) is a small bird species of the family Sylviidae. It is named after its describer Edgardo Moltoni.

Moltoni's warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Sylvia
Species:
S. subalpina
Binomial name
Sylvia subalpina
(Temminck, 1820)

It breeds in Corsica, Sardinia, areas around the Ligurian Sea and the Balearic Islands.

It is a bird of dry open country, often on hill slopes, with bushes for nesting. The nest is built in low shrub or gorse, and 3–5 eggs are laid. Like most "warblers", it is insectivorous, but will also eat berries. It winters in Algeria and Sub-Saharan West Africa.[1][2]

It was until recently considered a subspecies of the subalpine warbler, from which it differs by a shorter trill and a pinker rather than orange underside.

The genus name is from Modern Latin silvia, a woodland sprite, related to silva, a wood. The specific subalpina is Latin for "below the mountains".[3]

References
  1. Moltoni's warbler @ Handbook of Bird Species of the World
  2. Piot, B.; Blanc, Jean-Francois (2007). "Moltoni's Warbler Sylvia subalpina in Senegal and West Africa". Malimbus. 39: 37–42.
  3. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 369, 376. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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