Warbler, Menetries’s

Conservation status:

Passage Migrant and Winter Visitor

Description:

A small short tailed warbler. Male has black forehead and ear coverts, with grey crown and brown grey mantle, wings with sandy feather-fringes and black alula. Females and juveniles are a pale sandy brown. In fresh plumage showwhite moustachial stripe, contrasting with pinkish-white throat and breast. Eye ring varies from salmon pink to red. Bill bi-coloured. Legs usually pinkish straw. Eye-ring varies from brown to yellow in adult female. Active on low shrubs and on ground. Often waves tail sideways or up and down.