Lesser whitethroat
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| Nominate Curruca curruca curruca in Wrocław, Poland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sylviidae |
| Genus: | Curruca |
| Species: | C. curruca
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| Curruca curruca | |
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| Range of C. curruca (Compiled by: BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2019) 2018.) Breeding Resident Passage Non-breeding
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The lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) is a common and widespread
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.
Like most "warblers", it is
Taxonomy
The lesser whitethroat was
This species has been commonly assumed to be closely related to the
Rather, the lesser whitethroat and its closest relatives
The lesser whitethroat complex has been split up into the present species, Hume's whitethroat, and the small whitethroat from which the Margelanic whitethroat may also be specifically distinct. In this
- Curruca curruca curruca – Western lesser whitethroat – western parts of range
- Curruca curruca blythi – Northeastern lesser whitethroat – eastern parts of range. Has somewhat paler top of head, separated from face sides by white supercilium.
- Curruca curruca halimodendri – SE Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to NW Mongolia
- Curruca curruca althaea – Hume's whitethroat – Iran, southern Turkmenistan to northern Pakistan and central Asia
- Curruca curruca minula – Desert whitethroat – southern Kazakhstan to western China
- Curruca curruca margelanica – northern China
Two more taxa occur in the intergradation zone with the small whitethroat, stretching from the northern
- Curruca curruca/minula halimodendri
- Curruca curruca/minula telengitica
Similarly, Curruca curruca caucasica described by
A bird which wintered at
Gallery
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Lesser whitethroat at Rajkot, Gujarat -
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Curruca curruca egg -
Curruca curruca -MHNT
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References
- . Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gesner, Conrad (1555). Historiae animalium liber III qui est de auium natura. Adiecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis: & ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordiné quo in hoc volumine continentur (in Latin). Zurich: Froschauer. pp. 355–357.
- ^ Hartert, Ernst (1909). Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna (in German). Vol. 1. Berlin: R. Friedländer und Sohn. p. 588.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 275.
- ^ Bechstein, Johann Matthäus (1802). Ornithologisches Taschenbuch von und für Deutschland, oder, Kurze Beschreibung aller Vögel Deutschlands für Liebhaber dieses Theils der Naturgeschichte (in German). Leipzig: Carl Friedrich Enoch Richter. p. 165.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (15 July 2023). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ISBN 0-691-08833-0
- .
- ^ ISBN 0-19-268579-1
- ^ Pettersson, Mattias (2001). "A Central Asian Lesser Whitethroat in Sweden". Birding World. 14 (1): 12–15.
External links
Media related to Curruca curruca at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Curruca curruca at Wikispecies- Avibase
- Feathers of the lesser whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)
