THE WILLOW WARBLER 

 Phylloscopus trochilus 



Of all the Warbler band that visit the British 

 Islands each recurring spring the Willow Warbler 

 is not only the best known, but the most widely 

 distributed, and, we were going to add, the greatest 

 popular favourite too. With the exception of the 

 remote and inhospitable Orkney and Shetland 

 Islands, together with some of the Hebrides, the 

 Willow Warbler is found during spring and summer 

 throughout Great Britain and Ireland, in all areas 

 suited to its requirements. It is a species of equally 

 wide range in continental districts, being a summer 

 visitor to most parts of Europe from the Mediter- 

 ranean nearly to the Arctic Ocean. Its summer 

 range also includes the extreme north of Africa. 

 In Asia it ranges equally far north, and has been 

 met with as far east as the valley of the Yenesay. 

 Its winter range includes Persia, Palestine, Asia 

 Minor, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, the south of France, 

 and Spain ; whilst in Africa it extends to an undeter- 



