Sylvia melanocephala ranges throughout the Mediterranean region, occurring in
Portugal,
Spain,
Andorra,
France,
Italy,
Switzerland,
Slovenia,
Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia,
Montenegro,
Kosovo,
Albania,
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Greece,
Bulgaria,
Romania,
Turkey,
Libya,
Tunisia,
Algeria,
Mauritania,
Senegal,
Western Sahara,
Lebanon,
Israel and
Egypt. The race
norrisae of the Fayyum area in central Egypt has not been seen since 1939, and is now extinct (del Hoyo
et al. 2006).
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012.
Sylvia melanocephala. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>
