whitethroat

Last spring, a whitethroat set up its territory in a field of rape near my home.

I heard a whitethroat sparrow, who would not remain long on his way north.

"Speaking of the sparrow family, did you see anything of Whitethroat?"

This species has been commonly assumed to be closely related to the Whitethroat, as their common names imply.

Gorse provides a nesting site for birds such as the yellowhammer and whitethroat.

In most cases, nocturnal singing, such as your whitethroat indulged in, also comes about through human interference.

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!

Breeding birds include nuthatch, lesser whitethroat and cuckoo.

The areas of gorse heathland surrounding the eastern beaches are home to the whitethroat, the robin and the yellowhammer.

The Whitethroat is a common bird of the open countryside, seen on hedges or roadside wires, singing its short scratchy song.

It is slightly smaller than the Whitethroat, and lacks the chestnut wings and uniform head-face color of that species.

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

Similar birds Lesser Whitethroat.

"Now take the whitethroat - sylvia cinera.

The Desert Whitethroat (Sylvia minula) is a typical warbler.

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.

Species include song thrush, mistle thrush, great spotted woodpecker and whitethroat.

Whitethroat (grass moorland)

The two are still each other's closest living relatives, and their relationships to other typical warblers are not clear; they may be fairly close to the Whitethroat.

The most common birds are Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Common Whitethroat.

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

The scrub provides a habitat for breeding Blackcap, Whitethroat and Willow-Warbler.

Threatened dragonflies, such as the banded darter, southern emerald damselfly live here as do birds like the whitethroat and little grebe.