Sylviid Warblers & Parrotbills

Lesser Whitethroat

Sylvia curruca

The Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) is an 11 g scrub bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Sylviid Warblers & Parrotbills

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

11 g

Habitat

Shrubland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

66

Recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, India, United Kingdom, Norway, Israel, Germany, Netherlands, France, Poland, Belgium, Estonia, Russia, Åland, Turkey, Czechia, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Palestine, Ukraine, Switzerland, Romania, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Greece, Kazakhstan, Oman, Georgia, Slovakia, Iran, Lithuania, Mongolia, Kuwait, Italy, Serbia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, China, Armenia, Tajikistan, Croatia, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Isle of Man, Spain, Afghanistan, Ireland, Moldova, Qatar, Iceland, North Macedonia, Nepal, Sudan, Montenegro.

Where to see it: Ras Ghareb sewage ditch (Egypt); Band e Amir (Afghanistan); Repetek қорығы (Repetek Nature Reserve) (Turkmenistan); Jerusalem Bird Observatory התחנה לחקר ציפורי ירושלים (Israel); Khovd Bird Ringing Station, Khovd, MN (Mongolia).

Photo: (c) Tomas Broucek, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist