Thick-billed Warbler at Ooty

The thick-billed warbler is an Old World warbler that breeds in temperate east Asia. It is migratory, wintering in tropical south east Asia. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

This passerine bird is a species found in dense vegetation such as reeds, bushes and thick undergrowth. 5-6 eggs are laid in a nest in a low tree.

This is a large warbler, at 16–17.5 centimetres long nearly as big as great reed warbler. The adult has an unstreaked brown back and buff underparts,.. more