Name: Whitethroat, Lesser
Scientific name: Sylvia curruca
Type: Whitethroat
Color: Brown,Grey,White
Habitat: Fields
Size: 15.5cm
Conservation status:
Passage Migrant and Winter Visitor
Description:
A small to medium sized warbler. Genearally grey-brown above with browner wings, medium -grey crown and darker ear coverts, which often vary in prominence. Has a white throat with a contrasting dusky-washed breast. Differs from Common Whitethroat in abcense of rusty fringes to wing feathers. It has dark ear-coverts and dark legs. Ist year birds often show indistinct whitish supercilium.
