{"id":4244,"date":"2026-04-23T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:33:22","slug":"whitethroat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/whitethroat\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitethroat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<b>common whitethroat<\/b>\u00a0(<i>Curruca communis<\/i>) is a common and widespread\u00a0typical warbler\u00a0which breeds throughout\u00a0Europe\u00a0and across much of temperate western\u00a0Asia. This small\u00a0passerine\u00a0bird\u00a0is strongly\u00a0migratory, and winters in tropical\u00a0Africa,\u00a0Arabia, and\u00a0Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of several\u00a0<i>Curruca<\/i>\u00a0species that has distinct male and female\u00a0plumages. Both sexes are mainly brown above and buff below, with chestnut fringes to the secondary\u00a0remiges. The adult male has a grey head and a white throat. The female lacks the grey head, and the throat is duller. The whitethroat&#8217;s song is fast and scratchy, with a scolding tone.<\/p>\n<p>The hoarse, a little bit nasal call sounds like\u00a0<i>wed-wed<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>woid-woid<\/i>. The warning cry is long-pulled, rough\u00a0<i>tschehr<\/i> which resembles that of the\u00a0Dartford warbler.<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u00a0bird\u00a0of open country and cultivation, with bushes for nesting. The nest is built in low\u00a0shrub\u00a0or\u00a0brambles, and 3\u20137 eggs are laid. Like most\u00a0warblers, it is\u00a0insectivorous, but will also eat berries and other soft\u00a0fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0common whitethroat\u00a0(Curruca communis) is a common and widespread\u00a0typical warbler\u00a0which breeds throughout\u00a0Europe\u00a0and across much of temperate western\u00a0Asia. This small\u00a0passerine\u00a0bird\u00a0is strongly\u00a0migratory, and winters in tropical\u00a0Africa,\u00a0Arabia, and\u00a0Pakistan. This is one of several\u00a0Curruca\u00a0species that has distinct male and female\u00a0plumages. Both sexes are mainly brown above and buff below, with chestnut fringes to the secondary\u00a0remiges. The adult male has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":4238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-143","category-bird-species","category-migrant-arrivals"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}