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WetlandSmall · 17 g
What the Bluethroat sounds like
ID tip
The male plumage is brightest in spring and summer; after the summer moult, the fresh new feathers have pale tips which obscure the throat pattern. These tips then abrade in late winter and early spring to reveal the brighter bases of the feathers. Females of all subspecies usually have just a blackish crescent and very limited blue on an otherwise cream throat and breast, though older individuals can develop more strongly male-like plumage.
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When to see the Bluethroat
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bluethroat
The map shades 90 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Macao SAR China.
About the Bluethroat
The bluethroat is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in wet birch wood or bushy swamp in Europe and across the Palearctic with a foothold in western Alaska. It nests in tussocks or low in dense bushes. It winters in the Iberian Peninsula, the northern half of Africa, and in southern Asia. The bluethroat, and similar small European flycatchers, are often called chats.
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Easily confused with
Thrush NightingaleLuscinia lusciniaAn adult thrush nightingale is about 16 centimetres (6.3 in) long with a wingspan of approximately 18 centimetres (7.1 in).
Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchosThe common nightingale is slightly larger than the European robin, at 15–16.5 cm (5.9–6.5 in) length.
White-bellied RedstartLuscinia phaenicuroidesThe white-bellied redstart is a species of bird of the family Muscicapidae.
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