Whitethroat
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The Whitethroat (Curruca communis) is a medium-sized warbler known for its lively behavior and distinctive song. Here are some key facts about this bird:
- Identification: Males have a grey head, white throat, and brown back, while females lack the grey cap but share the white throat and reddish-brown wings.
- Size: About 14 cm in length, with a wingspan of 18.5–23 cm and a weight of 12–18 g.
- Habitat: Prefers hedgerows, scrubland, woodland edges, and farmland.
- Diet: Primarily insects, but also eats berries and fruit in autumn.
- Breeding: Builds a deep cup-shaped nest in low bushes or shrubs, laying 4–5 eggs that hatch in 11–12 days.
- Migration: A summer visitor to the UK, arriving in April and leaving by September to winter in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Conservation: The UK population suffered a 90% decline in the late 1960s due to drought in its wintering grounds but has been slowly recovering.
The Whitethroat (Curruca communis) is a medium-sized warbler known for its lively behavior and distinctive song. Here are some key facts about this bird:
- Identification: Males have a grey head, white throat, and brown back, while females lack the grey cap but share the white throat and reddish-brown wings.
- Size: About 14 cm in length, with a wingspan of 18.5–23 cm and a weight of 12–18 g.
- Habitat: Prefers hedgerows, scrubland, woodland edges, and farmland.
- Diet: Primarily insects, but also eats berries and fruit in autumn.
- Breeding: Builds a deep cup-shaped nest in low bushes or shrubs, laying 4–5 eggs that hatch in 11–12 days.
- Migration: A summer visitor to the UK, arriving in April and leaving by September to winter in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Conservation: The UK population suffered a 90% decline in the late 1960s due to drought in its wintering grounds but has been slowly recovering.
The Whitethroat (Curruca communis) is a medium-sized warbler known for its lively behavior and distinctive song. Here are some key facts about this bird:
- Identification: Males have a grey head, white throat, and brown back, while females lack the grey cap but share the white throat and reddish-brown wings.
- Size: About 14 cm in length, with a wingspan of 18.5–23 cm and a weight of 12–18 g.
- Habitat: Prefers hedgerows, scrubland, woodland edges, and farmland.
- Diet: Primarily insects, but also eats berries and fruit in autumn.
- Breeding: Builds a deep cup-shaped nest in low bushes or shrubs, laying 4–5 eggs that hatch in 11–12 days.
- Migration: A summer visitor to the UK, arriving in April and leaving by September to winter in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Conservation: The UK population suffered a 90% decline in the late 1960s due to drought in its wintering grounds but has been slowly recovering.
A whitethroat singing on an elder tree at Stratford-upon-Avon
Common whitethroat "Sylvia communis"
Just starting to get in to bird photography.
Taken at RSPB Canvey Wick
Found in open, scrubby habitats from coastal heaths, open woodlands, and low hedges to bramble thickets on waste ground. Rather retiring, like most warblers, but jerky climbing display flight often draws attention. Also gives its burbling, buzzing song from a perch. Often gives a rising, sparrow-like “weet, weet.” Plumage brownish overall with bright rusty wings; grayer head has narrow whitish eyering and sets off white throat, which often looks a little puffy.
The whitethroat is a medium-sized, long-tailed warbler of grassland, scrub and hedgerows. It is a summer visitor and passage migrant, breeding in many areas, but avoiding urban and mountainous places. Males whitethroats build nests out of twigs and roots and the females then decide which to take.
In Sussex, the Whitethroat, Sylvia communis, is a common summer visitor, arriving in April and departing for Africa in early October.
The male whitethroat does, indeed, have a white throat! Arriving from Sub-Saharan Africa in April, it can be spotted on grassland and scrub, and along hedgerows. It is bigger than the lesser whitethroat.
The Whitethroat is a medium-sized warbler, about the size of a Great Tit. It has quite a long tail, which it flicks and sticks up as it darts rapidly in and out of cover. The male has a grey head, a white throat and a brown back, and is beige underneath. It's a summer visitor and passage migrant, with birds breeding widely, although it avoids urban and mountain areas. It winters in Africa, south of the Sahara.
