Listen to the thrush nightingale
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About the thrush nightingale
The thrush nightingale is a bird in the family Muscicapidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults weigh around 3 g.
What does the thrush nightingale sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as song and luscinia luscinia. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), also known as the sprosser, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is a migratory species breeding in forests in Europe and the Palearctic and overwintering in Africa. An insectivore, it nests near the ground in dense undergrowth. Its distribution is more northerly than the very closely related common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), which it closely resembles in appearance. Hybrids between the two have occurred in areas where their ranges overlap.
Related birds in the genus Luscinia
More from the family Muscicapidae
European robin
Erithacus rubecula
Common redstart
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Northern wheatear
Oenanthe oenanthe
Black redstart
Phoenicurus ochruros
Spotted flycatcher
Muscicapa striata
Blue rock thrush
Monticola solitarius
Red-breasted flycatcher
Ficedula parva
Whinchat
Saxicola rubetra
European pied flycatcher
Ficedula hypoleuca
Common rock thrush
Monticola saxatilis
Frequently asked questions
What does a thrush nightingale sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the thrush nightingale on this page, including its song and luscinia luscinia. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the thrush nightingale endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the thrush nightingale as “least concern”.
What family does the thrush nightingale belong to?
The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) belongs to the family Muscicapidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Song · Svedala Municipality, Skåne län, Sweden by Mats Havskogen – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Luscinia luscinia by Yu Moskalenko – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q206130 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Thrush nightingale – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Vogelartinfo – GFDL 1.2