Monday, October 26, 2009 - A NEW YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER AT UGA-LANZAROTE

by Francisco Javier García Vargas

On 22/X, I detected a Yellow-browed Warbler at the village of Uga, in the south of Lanzarote.

The bird was inside of a little garden, very near of the garden where we saw another Yellow-browed Warbler in 2008 (a photopage of this bird can be seen here), spending most of the time in a lemon tree, being very elusive and hardly twitchable.

It was seen again at the same place on 23 and 25/X .

An European Robin, some Sedge Warblers, Blackcaps and Common Chiffchaffs were present in the same garden.

This is the third Yellow-browed Warbler that we have seen in Lanzarote in the last three years.

Is Yellow-browed Warbler an annual visitor to the Canary Islands?

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas