Warbler and others (43-12)

  • Streaked scrub warbler, Scotocerca inquieta
  • Brownish-flanked bush warbler, Cettia fortipes
Brownish-flanked bush warbler - Trail 5
    Brownish-Flanked Bush Warbler --- Margalla Hills

  • Cetti's warbler, Cettia cetti
  • Long-billed bush warbler, Locustella major
  • Grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia
  • Moustached warbler, Acrocephalus melanopogon
  • Paddyfield warbler, Acrocephalus agricola
Paddyfield Warbler - D-12, Islamabad

  • Blunt-winged warbler, Acrocephalus concinens
  • Eurasian reed warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus
  • Blyth's reed warbler, Acrocephalus dumetorum
Blyth's reed warbler - Rawal Lake

  • Great reed warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus
  • Clamorous reed warbler, Acrocephalus stentoreus
  • Booted warbler, Iduna caligata
  • Sykes's warbler, Iduna rama
  • Upcher's warbler, Hippolais languida
  • Willow warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus
  • Common chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita
Common chiffchaff - Malam Jabba
    Common chiffchaff - Rawal Lake

Siberian chiffchaff - Margalla
  • Mountain chiffchaff, Phylloscopus sindianus
  • Plain leaf warbler, Phylloscopus neglectus
  • Tickell's leaf warbler, Phylloscopus affinis
  • Sulphur-bellied warbler, Phylloscopus griseolus
Sulphur-bellied warbler - Margala

  • Pale-rumped warbler, Phylloscopus chloronotus
Pale-rumped warbler - Margalla Hills

  • Brooks's leaf warbler, Phylloscopus subviridis
  • Yellow-browed warbler, Phylloscopus inornatus
  • Hume's leaf warbler, Phylloscopus humei
Hume's leaf warbler - Ayubia
    White-Eye & Hume's leaf warbler - Trail 5

  • Greenish warbler, Phylloscopus trochiloides
  • Large-billed leaf warbler, Phylloscopus magnirostris
  • Tytler's leaf warbler, Phylloscopus tytleri
  • Western crowned leaf warbler, Phylloscopus occipitalis
Western Croned Warbler - Margalla Hills (Oct)

  • Blyth's leaf warbler, Phylloscopus reguloides
  • Green-crowned warbler, Seicercus burkii
  • Grey-hooded warbler, Seicercus xanthoschistos
Grey-hooded warbler - Margalla Hills

  • Whistler's warbler, Seicercus whistleri
Whistler's warbler - Margalla Hills

  • Striated grassbird, Megalurus palustris
  • Bristled grassbird, Chaetornis striatus   

The family Sylviidae is a group of small insectivorous passerine birds. They mainly occur as breeding species, as the common name implies, in Europe, Asia and, to a lesser extent, Africa. Most are of generally undistinguished appearance, but many have distinctive songs.
  • Greater whitethroat, Sylvia communis
Greater Common Whitethroat - Trail 5
  • Lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca
Lesser Whitethroat - Margalla

Lesser Whitethroat - Margalla

  • Small whitethroat, Sylvia minula
  • Hume's whitethroat, Sylvia althaea
  • Asian desert warbler, Sylvia nana
  • Barred warbler, Sylvia nisoria
  • Eastern Orphean warbler, Sylvia crassirostris
  • Menetries's warbler, Sylvia mystacea

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