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Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks September · Leaf Warblers · BOU category A

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

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes)
JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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.

Pale-legged Leaf 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.

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler has been recorded in 5 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in September.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TA17East Riding of Yorkshire, England1602024unverified
TA27East Riding of Yorkshire, England12024unverified
SD45Lancashire, England12016unverified
SV80Sea, off Isles of Scilly12016unverified
SK21Derbyshire, England12012unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.