lesser whitethroat

Breeding birds include nuthatch, lesser whitethroat and cuckoo.

They together with the Lesser Whitethroat group seem to form a distinct clade of typical warblers.

Similar birds Lesser Whitethroat.

Until recently, it was considered conspecific with the Lesser Whitethroat; today these are seen as members of a superspecies.

In this superspecies, the Lesser Whitethroat seems to form the basal European lineage.

Sylvia curruca blythi - Northeastern Lesser Whitethroat - eastern parts of range.

Trees include the uncommon wild service tree, and breeding birds include spotted flycatcher, lesser whitethroat, reed bunting and skylark.

The Subalpine Warbler's song is fast and rattling, and is similar to the Lesser Whitethroat.

Only two subspecies are nowadays unequivocally recognized for the Lesser Whitethroat, and they intergrade throughout Central Europe:

Nonetheless, apart from the Whitethroat not being closely related to the Lesser Whitethroat group, little can be resolved as it seems a fairly basal taxon.

Yellow wagtail, skylark, sedge warbler, reed warbler, lesser whitethroat, grasshopper warbler and reed bunting all occur.

These sister species have a breeding range which extends farther northeast than all other Sylvia species except the Lesser Whitethroat and Common Whitethroat.

Also the Wood Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat and Grasshopper Warbler breed regularly along with five other species of warbler.

The Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds in temperate Europe, except the southwest, and in western and central Asia.

Aside from insects, birds found the area include, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Meadow Pipit, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker and other migrant birds.

Rather, the Lesser Whitethroat and its closest relatives Hume's Whitethroat and the Small Whitethroat appear more related to a group of morphologically quite dissimilar species.

The breeding range does not overlap with Lesser Whitethroat, occurring to the southeast of that; it does overlap geographically with Hume's Whitethroat but is separated altitudinally.

The bird life of the common includes varieties such as chiffchaff, willow warbler, blackcap, common whitethroat, lesser whitethroat, reed warbler and occasionally sedge and grasshopper warblers.

The name Small Whitethroat has also been used by some authors, and Desert Lesser Whitethroat before it was split from Lesser Whitethroat.

This species was believed by some to be closely related to the Lesser Whitethroat, the species having evolved only during the end of the last ice age similar to the Willow Warbler and Chiffchaffs.

The Lesser Whitethroat complex has been split up into the present species, Hume's Whitethroat, and the Small Whitethroat from which the Margelanic Whitethroat may also be specifically distinct.

Lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca (synonym, Curruca curruca; protonym, Motacilla Curruca), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the white-throated warbler, photographed at Awash Lake, Ethiopia (Africa).