Lesser Whitethroat

What the Lesser Whitethroat sounds like

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot · Song · Leksand, Leksand Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Song · Dragey-Ronthon, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Song · Carolles, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Lesser 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 Lesser Whitethroat

The map shades 95 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 Taiwan, United States, Eritrea, Somalia.

About the Lesser Whitethroat

The 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. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, wintering in Africa just south of the Sahara, Arabia and India.

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Easily confused with

Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephalaThe Sardinian warbler is a common and widespread Sylviidae warbler from the Mediterranean region. Common WhitethroatCurruca communisThis is one of several Curruca species that has distinct male and female plumages. 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.