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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.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
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

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

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	13,200,000 km2	medium
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	6,350,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	8000000-15999999 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2012
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	4 years	-	-	-

Population justification: In Europe, the breeding population is estimated to number 3,720,000-6,500,000 pairs, which equates to 7,440,000-13,000,000 mature individuals (BirdLife International 2015). Europe forms 85% of the global range, so a very preliminary estimate of the global population size is 8,750,000-15,300,000 mature individuals, although further validation of this estimate is needed.

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be in decline in part owing to competition from H. polyglotta in the west of the range (del Hoyo et al. 2006). In Europe, trends between 1980 and 2013 show that populations have undergone a moderate decline (EBCC 2015).

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Albania	extant	native		yes
Algeria	extant	native
Angola	extant	native
Austria	extant	native		yes
Azerbaijan	extant	native		yes
Bahrain	extant	vagrant				yes
Belarus	extant	native		yes
Belgium	extant	native		yes
Bosnia and Herzegovina	extant	native		yes
Botswana	extant	native
Bulgaria	extant	native		yes
Cameroon	extant	vagrant
Central African Republic	extant	vagrant
Chad	extant	native
Congo	extant	native
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	vagrant
Croatia	extant	native		yes
Cyprus	extant	native
Czechia	extant	native		yes
Denmark	extant	native		yes		yes
Egypt	extant	native
Eritrea	extant	native
Estonia	extant	native		yes
Eswatini	extant	native
Ethiopia	extant	native
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	extant	vagrant
Finland	extant	native		yes
France	extant	native		yes
Gabon	extant	native
Germany	extant	native		yes
Ghana	extant	vagrant
Gibraltar (to UK)	extant	vagrant
Greece	extant	native				yes
Guinea-Bissau	extant	vagrant
Hungary	extant	native		yes
Iceland	extant	vagrant
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native		yes		yes
Iraq	extant	native				yes
Ireland	extant	native
Israel	extant	native
Italy	extant	native		yes		yes
Jordan	extant	native				yes
Kazakhstan	extant	native		yes
Kenya	extant	native
Kuwait	extant	native				yes
Latvia	extant	native		yes
Lebanon	extant	native				yes
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	vagrant
Mozambique	extant	native
Namibia	extant	native
Netherlands	extant	native		yes
Niger	extant	vagrant
Nigeria	extant	native
North Macedonia	extant	native		yes
Norway	extant	native		yes
Oman	extant	vagrant				yes
Palestine	extant	native				yes
Poland	extant	native		yes
Portugal	extant	vagrant
Qatar	extant	vagrant
Romania	extant	native		yes
Russia	extant	native		yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (European)	extant	native		yes
Rwanda	extant	native
Saudi Arabia	extant	native				yes
Serbia	extant	native		yes
Seychelles	extant	vagrant
Slovakia	extant	native		yes
Slovenia	extant	native		yes
Somalia	extant	vagrant
South Africa	extant	native
Spain	extant	native
Sudan	extant	native				yes
Sweden	extant	native		yes
Switzerland	extant	native		yes
Syria	extant	native				yes
Tajikistan	extant	vagrant
Tanzania	extant	native
Togo	extant	vagrant
Tunisia	extant	native
Türkiye	extant	native		yes
Uganda	extant	native
Ukraine	extant	native		yes
United Arab Emirates	extant	vagrant				yes
United Kingdom	extant	native		yes
Yemen	extant	vagrant				yes
Zambia	extant	native
Zimbabwe	extant	native

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Russia (European)	Buzulukski forest

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	breeding
Forest	Boreal	suitable	breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Temperate	suitable	breeding
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Sport hunting/specimen collecting	subsistence, national

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/icterine-warbler-hippolais-icterina on 26/11/2024.
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 26/11/2024.