Bluethroat (Male)

Description:

The Bluethroat is a small passerine bird ,generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher.Bluethroat is often compared with Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) because both are very similar in appearance. However, they differ by the throat colours giving the bird its name. Bluethroat adult male summer has brown upperparts. Rounded tail is dark brown with reddish base on outer rectrices. Underparts present a wonderful blue bib with rufous crescent at base of the throat. Below, blue bib is bordered by black, white and rufous bands across the breast. The white band is only a narrow line separating the two other colours. Lower breast and belly are white. Flanks are buffy-white. Undertail coverts have reddish base. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in wet birch wood or bushy swamp in Europe and Asia with a foothold in western Alaska. It nests in tussocks or low in dense bushes. It winters in north Africa and the Indian Subcontinent.