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Asian Desert Warbler (Curruca nana)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks October · Sylviid Warblers and Allies · BOU category A

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

Asian Desert Warbler (Curruca nana)
Kudaibergen Amirekul, 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.

Asian Desert 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.

Asian Desert Warbler has been recorded in 7 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in October.

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

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TG42Norfolk, England712024unverified
TG41Norfolk, England42024unverified
TG51Norfolk, England12024unverified
NU14Northumberland, England472020unverified
NU04Northumberland, England112020unverified
TA31East Riding of Yorkshire, England122000unverified
TA41East Riding of Yorkshire, England52000unverified

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.