Editing Typical warbler (section)

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Merge from|Pseudoalcippe|discuss=Talk:Typical warbler#Proposed merge of Pseudoalcippe into Typical warbler|date=February 2025}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Typical warblers
| image = Sylvia borin (Örebro County).jpg
| image_caption = [[Garden warbler]] (''Sylvia borin'')
| taxon = Sylvia
| authority = [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scopoli]], 1769
| type_species = ''[[Eurasian blackcap|Motacilla atricapilla]]'' ([[Eurasian blackcap]])
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms = ''Parisoma'' <small>[[William Swainson|Swainson]] in [[John Richardson (naturalist)|Richardson]], 1832</small>
}}

The '''typical warblers''' are small [[bird]]s belonging to the [[genus]] '''''Sylvia''''' in the  "Old World warbler" (or sylviid warbler) [[family (biology)|family]] [[Sylviidae]].<ref name=IOC>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes | work= World Bird List Version 6.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sylvias/
 | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| accessdate=4 August 2016 }}</ref><ref name=DelHoyo>Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A., & Christie, D. (editors). (2006). ''[[Handbook of the Birds of the World]]''. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. {{ISBN|84-96553-06-X}}.</ref>

There are seven species in the genus.<ref name=IOC/><ref name=DelHoyo/><ref name=Helbig>Helbig, A. J. (2001). The characteristics of the genus: Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus ''Sylvia''. Pages 24–28 in: Shirihai, H., Gargallo, G., Helbig, A. J., & Harris, A. ''Sylvia Warblers''. Helm Identification Guides {{ISBN|0-7136-3984-9}}</ref><ref name=Jonsson>Jønsson, K. A. & Fjeldså, J. (2006). A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri). ''[[Zoologica Scripta|Zool. Scripta]]'' 35 (2): 149–186. {{doi|10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00221.x}} (HTML abstract)</ref> Typical warblers occur in the [[temperate]] to [[tropical]] regions of [[Europe]], western and central [[Asia]], and [[Africa]], with the highest species diversity centred on the [[Mediterranean]].

They are strongly built, with stouter legs and a slightly thicker bill than many other [[warbler]]s. The [[plumage]] is in varying shades of grey and brown, usually darker above and paler below, with bluish or pinkish tones in several species; several also have orange-brown or [[rufous]] fringed wing feathers. The tail is square-ended in most, slightly rounded in a few, and in several species has white sides. Many of the species show some [[sexual dimorphism]], with distinctive male and female [[plumage]]s, with the males in many having black or bright grey on the heads, replaced by brown, brownish-grey or similar dusky colours in females; about a third of the species also have a conspicuous red eye ring in males. Species breeding in cool temperate regions are strongly [[bird migration|migratory]], while most of those in warmer regions are partially migratory or resident. They are active warblers usually associated with open woodland, scrub, hedges or shrubs. Their diet is largely insectivorous, though several species also eat fruit extensively, mainly small berries such as [[Sambucus|elder]] and [[ivy]], particularly from late summer to late winter; one species (blackcap) also frequently takes a wide variety of human-provided foods on birdtables in winter.<ref name=DelHoyo/><ref name=Snow>{{cite book |title=The Birds of the Western Palearctic |last=Snow |first=D. W., & Perrins, C. M.| edition = Concise | year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location= Oxford|isbn= 0-19-854099-X}}</ref>