A fairly uniform lead-gray warbler with a red eyering and orangey legs. Females are brownish-gray overall, with a paler throat and no black lores. Breeds only on Sardinia, Corsica, and a few smaller adjacent islands, in open scrubby habitats on mountainsides and rocky coastal areas; winters in open grassy and shrubby habitats in North Africa. Song is a complex twittering similar to other warblers in the same group.