The Greenish Warbler – or Grünlaubsänger in german – could be observed in the little town of Hilchenbach (427 asl) in the Siegerland on the edge of the state of North-Rhine Westfalia. The Greenish Warbler has established as a breeding bird in South Finland and at the coast of the eastern Baltic sea quite recently. But a singing Greenish Warbler in the Siegerland on the edge of the state of North-Rhine Westfalia in the middle of Germany is an exception nonetheless. This indivudual could be seen on the 10th of June 2012 along a stream near a retirement home in the center of the town. First the local ornithologists assumed it would be a Taiga Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus tristis or Sibirischer Zilpzalp), who managed to make its way to Hilchenbach. Deliberate singing made the identification easy eventually. The Warbler was discovered on the 1st of June and had been seen by several observers in the meantime. One other discovery in the state of North-Rhine Westfalia dates back to the year 1987, when a singing male was observered in Heiligenhaus near Overath 40 kilometers west of Cologne.
The Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides) are widespread leaf warblers throughout their breeding range in northeastern Europe and temperate to subtropical continental Asia. This warbler is a migrant and winters in India. It is not uncommon as a spring vagrant in Western Europe. In Central Europe quite good numbers of vagrant birds are encountered in some years; some of these may stay to breed as happened already in Germany.
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