Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) - BirdLife species factsheet

Garden Warbler Sylvia borin

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of_the_WP15.xls.
Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Species attributes

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	17,900,000 km²
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	14,700,000 km²
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	29000000-48600000 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2018
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	4.13 years	-	-	-

Population justification: In Europe, the total population size is estimated at 23,200,000-38,900,000 mature individuals, with 11,600,000-19,500,000 breeding pairs (BirdLife International 2021), and comprises approximately 80% of the species' global range, so a very preliminary estimate of the global population size is between 29,000,000-48,600,000 mature individuals, although further validation of this estimate is desirable. The species' population in Europe is considered to have undergone a small decline over three generations (12.39 years) (BirdLife International 2021). This species is considered to have a medium dependency on forest habitat, which is estimated to be declining at a slow rate within its mapped range (Global Forest Watch 2024). Accordingly the global population size is considered to be decreasing slowly over three generations.

Trend justification: .

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Afghanistan	extant	vagrant			yes
Albania	extant	native		yes
Algeria	extant	native
Andorra	extant	native		yes
Angola	extant	native
Armenia	extant	native		yes
Austria	extant	native		yes
Azerbaijan	extant	native		yes
Bahrain	extant	native			yes
Belarus	extant	native		yes
Belgium	extant	native		yes
Benin	extant	vagrant
Bosnia and Herzegovina	extant	native		yes
Botswana	extant	native
Bulgaria	extant	native		yes
Burkina Faso	extant	native
Burundi	extant	native
Cameroon	extant	native
Central African Republic	extant	native
Chad	extant	native
Congo	extant	native
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	native
Croatia	extant	native		yes
Cyprus	extant	native			yes
Czechia	extant	native		yes
Denmark	extant	native		yes	yes
Djibouti	extant	vagrant
Egypt	extant	native
Equatorial Guinea	extant	native
Eritrea	extant	native
Estonia	extant	native		yes
Eswatini	extant	native
Ethiopia	extant	native
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	extant	native		yes
Finland	extant	native		yes	yes
France	extant	native		yes
Gabon	extant	native
Gambia	extant	native
Georgia	extant	native		yes
Germany	extant	native		yes	yes
Ghana	extant	native
Greece	extant	native		yes	yes
Guinea	extant	native
Guinea-Bissau	extant	native
Hungary	extant	native		yes
Iceland	extant	vagrant
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native			yes
Iraq	extant	native			yes
Ireland	extant	native		yes
Israel	extant	native
Italy	extant	native		yes	yes
Jordan	extant	native			yes
Kazakhstan	extant	native		yes
Kenya	extant	native
Kuwait	extant	native			yes
Kyrgyzstan	extant	native			yes
Latvia	extant	native		yes
Lebanon	extant	native			yes
Liberia	extant	native
Libya	extant	native
Liechtenstein	extant	native		yes
Lithuania	extant	native		yes
Luxembourg	extant	native		yes
Malawi	extant	native
Mali	extant	native
Malta	extant	native
Mauritania	extant	native
Moldova	extant	native		yes
Montenegro	extant	native		yes
Morocco	extant	native
Mozambique	extant	native
Namibia	extant	native
Netherlands	extant	native		yes
Niger	extant	native
Nigeria	extant	native
North Macedonia	extant	native		yes
Norway	extant	native		yes
Oman	extant	native			yes
Palestine	extant	native			yes
Poland	extant	native		yes
Portugal	extant	native		yes
Romania	extant	native		yes
Russia	extant	native		yes
Russia (Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (European)	extant	native		yes
Rwanda	extant	native
São Tomé e Príncipe	extant	vagrant
Saudi Arabia	extant	native			yes
Senegal	extant	native
Serbia	extant	native		yes
Sierra Leone	extant	native
Slovakia	extant	native		yes
Slovenia	extant	native		yes
Somalia	extant	vagrant
South Africa	extant	native
South Sudan	extant	native			yes
Spain	extant	native	yes
Sudan	extant	native
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	extant	vagrant
Sweden	extant	native		yes
Switzerland	extant	native		yes
Syria	extant	native			yes
Tanzania	extant	native
Togo	extant	native
Tunisia	extant	native
Türkiye	extant	native		yes
Turkmenistan	extant	native			yes
Uganda	extant	native
Ukraine	extant	native		yes
United Arab Emirates	extant	native			yes
United Kingdom	extant	native		yes
Uzbekistan	extant	native
Western Sahara	extant	native
Yemen	extant	vagrant			yes
Zambia	extant	native
Zimbabwe	extant	native

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Russia (European)	Buzulukski forest
Russia (European)	Zhigulevski Nature Reserve
Ukraine	Mzha river valley
Ukraine	Samars'kyj forest

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Boreal	suitable	breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Temperate	major	breeding
Savanna	Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Shrubland	Boreal	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Temperate	major	breeding
Altitude	0 - 2300 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Utilisation

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence, national
Sport hunting/specimen collecting	subsistence, national

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Garden Warbler Sylvia borin. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/garden-warbler-sylvia-borin on 23/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/11/2024.