Laura's Woodland-Warbler Phylloscopus laurae

A medium-sized, greenish leaf-warbler with a bright yellow throat, eyebrow, and vent, and pale belly. Eastern birds are brighter than those farther west. Immature is duller than adult, tinged brown on the upperparts. Pairs are inconspicuous residents in swamp and isolated evergreen forest patches in Miombo woodland, and in montane forest. Gleans insects from mid-level to forest canopy, often using edges and clearings. Similar migrant Willow Warbler is duller than Laura’s and lacks clear yellow throat and white belly demarcation; Laura’s does not overlap with other African resident wood-warblers. The distinctive melodious song is a series of 5-8 regularly repeated phrases “pri-chi-rri, pri-chir-ri, pri-chi-ri” or “twi-li, twi-li-twi-li”.