Birds of the southern taiga of western Siberia - song and habitat around Tomsk

Phylloscopus trochiloides 
-  Greenish Warbler - Зеленая пеночка - Grauwe Fitis  -  Song

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Recorded on the 27th of June 2001 in Kislovka village, near Tomsk (pine forest; at 56°28N, 84°56E).

Arrives after bird cherry tree and birch foliage expansion. In Tomsk and its outskirts appears in the second half of May.

Breeds in woodland, normally open and with tall deciduous and coniferous trees, often in undulated terrain. Locally also in some city parks. Common and region-wide.

The period of singing lasts almost all the summer.