The small, dark, long-tailed warbler is resident in the UK and has recently extended its range in southern England.

The species has suffered from severe winters winters in the past and its population crashed to maybe only a dozen pairs in the bitter winter of 1962/3. A succession of mild winters has made a gradual recovery both in numbers and range possible.

A shy species, ocassionally seen singing while perched on a stem of gorse, it is more often seen bobbing between the bushes of its scrub habitat.

Britain lies on the northern edge of this warbler's European range and it occurs only in southern England, the bulk of the population found from Dorset to Sussex with small numbers in Devon and Cornwall and on the Isle of Wight.

Some wandering may occur in winter when occasional birds are seen as far afield as East Anglia.

It seems to be a rare bird in this country, and owes its name, with us, to the accident of a pair of them having been seen near Dartford, in Kent, some years ago; they have since been observed in great numbers, and are supposed sometimes to winter with us.

- Bewick's British Birds, Vol. I: The Dartford Warbler, 1797

In Britain, the Dartford Warbler breeds in dry scrub (heather and gorse), in Southern Europe it breeds in maquis.

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Classification

kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Craniata
class	Aves   Birds
order	Passeriformes
family	Sylviidae
genus	Sylvia
species	Sylvia undata

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Links to Other Pages on this Site CORNWALL The species is restricted to the south-eastern part of the county. DEVON RSPB Reserve, Aylesbeare Dartmoor National Park Having recently expanded its range across southern Britain to include Dartmoor, the 50 or so pairs which nest in the park are a nationally significant population. DORSET heathlands RSPB Reserve, Arne HAMPSHIRE New Forest The New Forest is home to the largest and possibly most important population of Dartford Warblers in Britain. It is believed this population acts as a reservoir from which other areas can be recolonised following adverse winters. ISLE OF WIGHT SUFFOLK Never a plentiful species this far north and with no old records of breeding in the county, it lingered in Suffolk until at least the late 1920s and has now returned as a breeding bird. RSPB Reserve, Dunwich Heath RSPB Reserve, North Warren SURREY Heathlands

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Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa
  by K Baker, publisher Christopher Helm

Sylvia Warblers
  by H Shirihai, G Gargallo and A Helbig, publisher Christopher Helm

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