Waar om die Willow Warbler in Suid-Afrika te sien

Hosts on Spekboom have recorded the Willow Warbler at stays in or beside Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Swartberg Nature Reserve. A record means a host has seen it on the property or nearby, which makes these the places to base yourself; it is never a guarantee of a sighting on any given day.

The Willow Warbler is most recorded in Limpopo (24% of records), KwaZulu-Natal (18% of records), Gauteng (15% of records), based on 292 iNaturalist observations. 15 places to stay on Spekboom in South Africa have recorded the Willow Warbler on site or nearby.

The Willow Warbler is recorded throughout the year, so no month is the wrong month to look for it. For the parks where hosts record it most, these are the best seasons they give. Kruger National Park: Apr-Sep; iSimangaliso Wetland Park: year-round, dry season May-Sep; Swartberg Nature Reserve: Sep-Apr, flowers Aug-Oct. In the dry months animals concentrate at water and the grass is short.

The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and the Palearctic, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia. It is strongly migratory, with almost all of the population wintering in Sub-Saharan Africa.