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Brown woodland warbler

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ3049745 ↗
Source-derived summary

The brown woodland warbler (Phylloscopus umbrovirens) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae.

Distribution and habitat

It is native to the eastern Afromontane. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Status

The range of the brown woodland warbler is quite large, with its extent of occurrence being estimated at 3,990,000 km2 (1,540,000 sq mi). Its population is assumed to be stable, though no accurate estimates of its size have been made. The 2016 IUCN Red List classifies the species as one of least concern.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Brown woodland warbler” as species of bird. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Brown, woodland and warbler can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of bird. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3049745. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brown woodland warbler” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.