Greater Whitethroat

Description:

This is a typical warbler, very common and roughly sparrow sized. I believe this was a juvenile, but it could also be a female - all brown above, and whitish below, with a sharp line in between these two colours. It also sports chestnut fringes on wing flight feathers (remiges).

Habitat:

This spring I saw these beauties regularly - one or two of them came regularly to feast on exposed insects after the grass and flowers were cut (against my wishes...) on terraces in our garden. Located at outskirts of Dubrovnik, on lower slopes of Srdj mountain, the garden is terraced and covered in Mediterranean fruit trees and spontaneous vegetation. In spring, these terraces are overgrown in beautiful dense carpet of spontaneous Mediterranean herbs and melliferous flowers.

Notes:

1. Previously classified in Sylvia genus, today it is placed in Curruca genus.