Arctic Warbler
Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler.
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Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the long distant migrant Arctic warbler. These classic olive-grey warblers, slightly smaller than the European robin, with a pale eye-stripe, winter in south-east Asia, but each spring fly to northern forests to breed. This can be as far as Finland, up to 13,000 kilometres away as well as Arctic and sub-Arctic Russia, Japan and even Alaska. They do this to feed on the bountiful supply of insects which proliferate during the 24-hour daylight of an Arctic summer. A few make it to Britain, the Northern Isles, but whether they finally return to Asia is not known.
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Arctic warbler (Phylloscopus borealis)
Webpage image courtesy of Markus Varesvuo / naturepl.com.
© Markus Varesvuo / naturepl.com.
Recording of arctic warbler by Matthew D Medler / Ref: ML 163313
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- Fri 10 Oct 2014 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Thu 24 Sep 2015 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Mon 29 Jul 2019 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Tue 20 Jul 2021 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Wed 26 Jul 2023 05:58±«Óãtv Radio 4
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