Non-breeding season records of warblers in the Phylloscopus reguloides lineage from Thailand and Myanmar

Abstract

Summary . A total of 20 individual Phylloscopus warblers in the ‘Blyth's Leaf Warbler P. reguloides lineage', caught for ringing in the non-breeding season in Thailand and Myanmar, were resolved via mtDNA assay as P. reguloides (seven individuals), Claudia's Leaf Warbler P. claudiae (12) and Hartert's Leaf Warbler P. goodsoni (one). As expected, P. claudiae proved to be the most widely distributed. The occurrence of four P. claudiae on an island in the Thai Gulf, alongside large numbers of typically Sundaic wintering species on northbound migration during late March-early April, indicates that its non-breeding season range probably extends further south than previously recognised, into that subregion.