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Moltoni's Warbler (Curruca subalpina)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks May · Sylviid Warblers and Allies · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Moltoni's Warbler (Curruca subalpina)
Francesco Veronesi from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Moltoni's Warbler: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Moltoni's Warbler has been recorded in 11 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in May.

Conservation status: Not Evaluated (IUCN Red List, NE)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SM70Pembrokeshire, Wales172022unverified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland62009 to 2022unverified
HU59Shetland Islands, Scotland42022unverified
HP50Shetland Islands, Scotland12022unverified
TG04Norfolk, England252015 to 2018unverified
ND47Highland, Scotland32018unverified
TF94Norfolk, England12018unverified
HZ27Shetland Islands, Scotland52014 to 2015unverified
SW32Cornwall, England12014unverified
HU30Shetland Islands, Scotland12009unverified
TF84Norfolk, England162007unverified

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