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status_system = IUCN3.1| genus = Iduna| species = caligata

Martin Lichtenstein>Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)| synonyms = Hippolais caligata| range_map = Iduna caligata distribution map.png

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Winter Visitor (Non-breeding)|outline=gray}}}}The booted warbler (Iduna caligata) is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler group. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with Sykes’s warbler, but the two are now usually both afforded species status.JOURNAL, 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.006, 19393746, 2009, Multi-locus phylogeny of the family Acrocephalidae (Aves: Passeriformes) – The traditional taxonomy overthrown, Silke Fregin, Martin Haase, Urban Olsson, Per Alström, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52, 3, 866–878, Booted warbler itself breeds from central Russia to western China, and migrates to winter in the Indian subcontinent as far south as Sri Lanka. Booted warbler has expanded its breeding range westward in recent decades and nests now as far west and north as Finland.It is a small passerine bird, found in open country with bushes and other tall vegetation. Three or four eggs are laid in a nest in a bush or vegetation. Like most warblers they are insectivorous.These are small warblers, especially compared to others in their genus. They are pale brown above and whitish below with buff flanks. The outer tail feathers have pale edges. They have a short pale supercilium, and the bill is strong and pointed. Sykes’s warbler is larger and greyer than the booted warbler, and most resembles an eastern olivaceous warbler.Keyserling and Blasius gave no explanation of the genus name Iduna, though in Norse mythology Iðunn, or Iduna, is the goddess of spring and fertility who was changed into a sparrow (or a nut) to enable her rescue by Loki.WEB,www.hbw.com/dictionary/key-to-scientific-names-in-ornithology?name=Iduna, Birds of the World - Comprehensive life histories for all bird species and families, The specific caligata is Latin for “booted” from caliga, “boot”.BOOK, Jobling, James A, 2010, The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names,archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling, Christopher Helm, London, 978-1-4081-2501-4, 84, 202, Gallery File:Booted Warbler, Iduna caligata.jpg|Booted warbler seen in Udumalpet, Tamil Nadu, IndiaFile:Iduna caligata MHNT ZOO 2010 11 201 Pérowsk.jpg|Eggs of Iduna caligata MHNTFile:Booted warbler (Iduna caligata).jpg|Booted warbler (Iduna caligata), Palakkad, Kerala, India References {{Commons category|Iduna caligata}}{{Wikispecies|Iduna caligata}}{{Reflist}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q757116}}{{Acrocephalidae-stub}}