Willow Warbler - History

History

The Willow Warbler was first scientifically described by Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 under the genus Motacilla. and then transferred to the genus Phylloscopus (of which it is the type species) by Boie in 1826.

Before the English name was standardised to Willow Warbler by William Yarrell in 1843, it was sometimes called "willow wren".

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