List of Birds of South Korea - Old World Warblers

Old World Warblers

Order: Passeriformes. Family: Sylviidae

The family Sylviidae is a group of small insectivorous passerine birds. The Sylviidae 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. There are 291 species worldwide and 28 species which occur in South Korea.

• Asian Stubtail Urosphena squameiceps (A)
• Manchurian Bush-Warbler Cettia canturians
• Japanese Bush-Warbler Cettia diphone
• Spotted Bush-Warbler Bradypterus thoracicus (A)
• Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
• Pallas's Warbler Locustella certhiola
• Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler Locustella ochotensis
• Pleske's Warbler Locustella pleskei
• Gray's Warbler Locustella fasciolata
• Black-browed Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
• Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola (A)
• Oriental Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
• Thick-billed Warbler Acrocephalus aedon (A)
• Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita (A)
• Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
• Tickell's Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus affinis (A)
• Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
• Lemon-rumped Warbler Phylloscopus chloronotus
• Chinese Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus yunnanensis (A)
• Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
• Hume's Warbler Phylloscopus humei (A)
• Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
• Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides (A)
• Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes
• Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides
• Eastern Crowned Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
• Marsh Grassbird Megalurus pryeri (A)
• Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca (A)