Common chiffchaff point, appears to be used to advertise an established territory and contact the female, rather than as a paternity guard strategy. Beyond the core territory, there is a larger feeding range which is variable in size, but typically ten or more times the area of the breeding territory. It is believed that the female has a larger feeding range than the male. After breeding has finished, this species abandons its territory, and may join small flocks including other warblers prior to migration. The male common chiffchaff returns to its breeding territory two or three weeks before the female and immediately
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia with one or more photographs as well as a distribution map. The taxonomy and nomenclature in the first edition followed "The Birds of Indonesia: a Checklist" by Peter Andrew from 1992; this was the most used checklist at the time, using the so-called ‘crows-last’ sequence. The book was a companion to "A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia" which was published the previous year, in 2000. However, this volume used a different checklist as a reference with a ‘buntings last’ sequence. "A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia" was reprinted several times during the following years, but