Greater/Common Whitethroat

Sylvia communis

Order:

Passeriformes

Family:

Sylviidae

Size:

14 cm

Weight:

14-17 g

Taxonomy:

S. c. rubicola (Stresemann, 1928)

Short Description:

A medium-sized Sylvia, quite slim, with rather large head and long tail. Larger and longer-tailed than Lesser, with broad, well-defined, sandy-brown to pale rufous-brown fringes to greater coverts and tertials, pale base to lower mandible, and orange-brown to pale brown (not grey) legs and feet.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast

Common passage migrant through the central parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, rare in Ghizer, Astore and Baltistan. Favors open country scattered with bushes and shrubs close to grassy patches; avoids densely vegetated areas, up to 2500m during passage.

Forages mainly in bushes and other low vegetation, taking items mostly from leaves and twigs; occasionally catches insects in flight or on ground. Invertebrates diet throughout year, include large number of insect orders and also other arthropods; fruits increase in significance outside breeding season, being particularly important during autumn migration and sometimes also in winter.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast