This is a better sighting from what i got last month but still cannot get close to what Madi got. The bird is still around at Ulu Kali beside a juvenile male Siberian Thrush. Both are laggers which are reluctant to return home.
The Yellow-browed Warbler is a winter visitor to peninsula Malaysia from temperate northern states mainly coming from China, Mongolia and Siberia. when visiting they prefer the montane forest above 1600m Like many other leaf warblers, it has overall greenish upperparts and white underparts. It also has prominent double wing bars formed by yellowish-white tips to the wing covert feathers (a long bar on the greater coverts and a short bar on the median coverts), yellow-margined tertial feathers, and long yellow supercilium. Some individuals also have a faint paler green central crown stripe though many do not show this. size wise it rather small at about 10-11cm long same as the local mountain leaf warbler. It feeds alone and appears at the same spots at Ulu Kali.
It is not a shy bird but it's constant motion make it a difficult subject to photograph. Its song is a high pitched medley of whistles; the call is piercing, often disyllabic "tseeweest", strikingly loud for the bird's small size.
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