Willow warbler
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The willow warbler is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and the Palearctic, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia
Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
Egg, Collection Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Willow Warbler
Coppicing
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Coppicing is the traditional method in woodland management of cutting down a tree to a stump, which in many species encourages new shoots to grow from the stump or roots, thus ultimately regrowing the
Willow warbler
…with sightings in St. Lawrence Island. Willow warblers prefer young, open, scrubby woodland with small trees, including human-altered habitats such as coppice and young plantations up to 10–20 years old. High amounts of birch, alder and willow, with good lichen amounts, and water features (e.g. streams…
Coppice stool shortly after coppicing
After one year's regrowth
Recently felled chestnut coppice near Petworth in West Sussex
Old hornbeam coppice stools left uncut for at least 100 years, Coldfall Wood, London