Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler

(Phylloscopus orientalis)

Category of conservation concern (IUCN, 2020) – Least Concern

Population size: 5 000 – 7 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

With patchy and dispersed distribution, covering more densely the Eastern Rhodopes, separate areas of the valleys of the rivers Struma and Mesta and the mountains around them, parts of Strandzha, Sakar, Derventa Hills and Eastern Stara Planina. Isolated nesting sites in the Thracian Plain, Rila, the Sub – Balkan valleys and the Black Sea coast to the north to some forest parts in the coastal part of Dobrudzha.

Comparative distribution of the species compared to the first breeding birds atlas (Iankov, 2007): Breeding locality until 2007 | Breeding locality until 2007, confirmed after 2015 – | New breeding locality after 2015. – The breeding localities after 2015 are identified on a base of raw data from smartbirds.org.

Habitats

Breeds almost exclusively in drier broad – leaved deciduous forests, mainly sprout forests of Quercus sp. Very often – without dense undergrowth.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed