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What the Common Whitethroat sounds like
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This is one of several Curruca species that has distinct male and female plumages. Both sexes are mainly brown above and buff below, with chestnut fringes to the secondary remiges. The adult male has a grey head and a white throat. The female lacks the grey head, and the throat is duller. The whitethroat's song is fast and scratchy, with a scolding tone. The hoarse, slightly nasal, call sounds like wed-wed or woid-woid. The warning cry is long-pulled, rough tschehr which resembles that of the Dartford warbler.
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When to see the Common Whitethroat
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Common Whitethroat
The map shades 108 countries with regular records, and 7 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 Japan, Guinea, Mali, Central African Republic, Liberia, Mozambique, San Marino.
About the Common Whitethroat
The common whitethroat or greater whitethroat is a common and widespread Old World warbler which breeds throughout Europe and across much of temperate western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical Africa, Arabia, and Pakistan.
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Easily confused with
Lesser WhitethroatCurruca currucaThe lesser whitethroat is a common and widespread Old World warbler which breeds in temperate Europe, except the southwest, and in the western and central Palearctic.
Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephalaThe Sardinian warbler is a common and widespread Sylviidae warbler from the Mediterranean region.
Dartford WarblerCurruca undataThe Dartford warbler is a small, 13 cm (5.1 in), passerine bird, distinguished by its long tail compared with that of other warblers.
Side by side: Common Whitethroat vs Dartford Warbler
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