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Common Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos
Challenging
Least concern
Not photographed yet
Distribution
Range
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Range: iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) · Base map: Natural Earth (public domain)
Quick facts
- Group
- Birds
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Size
- 15–17 cm (length)
- Weight
- 16–25 g
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Lifespan
- 2–4 yrs
- Habitat
- Dense scrub, Coppice woodland, Thickets
About
The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale, is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful and beautiful song. An Old World flycatcher, it belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats. Its range partly overlaps with that of the more northerly thrush nightingale, a closely related species with which hybrids have occurred.
Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), abridged.