Lesser Whitethroat
Curruca curruca - Fauvette babillarde
Systematics
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Order:
Passeriformes
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Family:
Sylviidés
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Genus:
Curruca
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Species:
curruca
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 14 cm
- Wingspan: 19 cm.
- Weight: 10 à 16 g
Longevity
7 years
Geographic range
Description identification
Lesser Whitethroat (Curruca curruca) is a species of bird in the Sylviidae family.
Subspecific information 3 subspecies
- Curruca curruca curruca (Europe to w Siberia and south to Asia Minor and n Iran)
- Curruca curruca blythi (nc Siberia and n Kazakhstan to n Mongolia and ne China)
- Curruca curruca halimodendri (se Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to nw Mongolia)
Foreign names
- Fauvette babillarde,
- Curruca zarcerilla,
- papa-amoras-cinzento,
- Klappergrasmücke,
- kis poszáta,
- Braamsluiper,
- Bigiarella,
- ärtsångare,
- Møller,
- penica popolavá,
- pěnice pokřovní,
- Gærdesanger,
- hernekerttu,
- tallarol xerraire,
- Netlusöngvari,
- piegża,
- gaišais ķauķis,
- mlinarček,
- Славка-мельничек,
- コノドジロムシクイ,
- 白喉林莺,
- นกคอขาวน้อย,
- 白喉林鶯,
Habitat
Forest : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Wetlands (inland) : Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha) ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Plantations, Rural Gardens
Sources of information
- Atlas des oiseaux de France métropolitaine. Nidification et présence hivernale. , Issa Nidal et Muller Y
- Guide encyclopédique des oiseaux du Paléarctique occidental, Mark Beaman, Steve Madge
- Les passereaux d'Europe, tome 1, P. Géroudet, M. Cuisin
- Birds of the World, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- HBW Alive,
- xeno-canto, Sharing bird sounds from around the world,
- IOC World Bird List (v12.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2022.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
- Apterygiformes
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- Caprimulgiformes
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- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
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- Pelecaniformes
- Phaethontiformes
- Phoenicopteriformes
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- Trogoniformes