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Lesser Whitethroat
Sylvia curruca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledBabbelgraatsch (ltz) · Bigiarella (ita) · Braamsluiper (nld) · Curruca Zarcerilla (spa) · Fauvette babillarde (fra) · Hernekerttu (fin) · Kis poszáta (hun) · Klappergrasmücke (deu) · Mëllerchen (ltz) · Papa-amoras-cinzento (por) · Ärtsångare (swe) · Кропив'янка прудка (ukr) · Кропив’янка прудка (ukr) · Gærdesanger (dan)
The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) 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.
Unlike many sylviid warblers, the sexes are almost identical. This is a small species with a grey back, whitish underparts, a grey head with a darker "bandit mask" through the eyes and a white throat. It is slightly smaller than the common whitethroat, and lacks the chestnut wings and uniform head-face colour of that species. The lesser whitethroat's song is a fast and rattling sequence of tet or che calls, quite different from the common whitethroat's scolding song.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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1 ex.; Turkey, Istanbul Province, Catalca, Riparian Habitat; 2021 - 04 - 27; (Table 6).
Nakkas Highway Bird Surveys Report 2021
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1 ex.; Poland, West Pomerania, Gryfino, Banie, Lubanowo; (Table 10).
Report on the environmental impact of the project involving a change in the number and parameters of the wind power plants at the planned Banie III wind farm
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1 ex.; Georgia, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Kazbegi, Kobi, lat: 42.55, long: 44.50, elev: 1970; 2018 - 05 - 08; (table).
North-South Corridor (Kvesheti-Kobi) Road Project - APPENDIX Y OTHER ECOLOGICAL SURVEYS
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Sylvia curruca in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2492960.