Bluethroat

Luscinia svecica

The bluethroat is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in wet birch wood or bushy swamp in Europe and across the Palearctic with a foothold in western Alaska. It nests in tussocks or low in dense bushes. It winters in the Iberian Peninsula, the northern half of Africa, and in southern Asia. The bluethroat, and similar small European flycatchers, are often called chats. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 4,824 times across 29 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 13°C (typically 10 to 20°C, from 16 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Europe ranged from 54°N in May to 70°N in June, about 1,800 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.