Eastern Orphean Warbler

The eastern Orphean warbler is a warbler 15 to 16cm long, somewhat larger than a blackcap. Males have a grey back, a dark grey head, a black eye mask and a white throat, while females and young are paler with reddish underparts. Its song is varied, with warbling and scolding notes rich enough to approach the nightingale's. It lives in open deciduous woodland and nests in a bush or tree with four to six eggs (Wikipedia, general species account).

It summers around the Mediterranean through the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus to Central Asia and winters in sub-Saharan Africa. The source does not name Nepal or South Asia, so its status on the Nepal list should be checked. It was described in 1830 and was formerly called Sylvia crassirostris (Wikipedia, general species account).