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Pallas's Leaf Warbler

🇳🇱 Pallas' Boszanger ·Phylloscopus proregulus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Pallas's Leaf Warbler, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Vyacheslav Luzanov · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Pallas's leaf warbler or Pallas's warbler ( Phylloscopus proregulus ) is a bird that breeds in mountain forests from southern Siberia east to northern Mongolia and northeast China. It is named for German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first formally described it. This leaf warbler is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in south China and adjacent areas of southeast Asia, although in recent decades increasing numbers have been found in Europe in autumn.

base stats

  • NL sightings 16iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 3,176iNaturalist observations
  • weight 6 gadult, up to
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • Spotted 16 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 3,176 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Weighs only about 6 g.
  • Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811 (215 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Pallas's Leaf Warbler
Nederlands
Pallas' Boszanger
scientific name
Phylloscopus proregulus
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Phylloscopidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
16
sightings in Europe
225
sightings worldwide
3,176
GBIF records in NL
8,125
weight
6 g
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1811 by Peter Simon Pallas

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Phylloscopidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117041, Wikidata Q752513, GBIF 2493090, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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