Lesser Whitethroat Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Sylvia crassirostris
Family : Sylviidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Bushes
Description : The Lesser Whitethroat is a small brownish-grey passerine with a white throat and dark ear-coverts (length 12 cm, wing 6 cm, bill 1.2 cm, tarsus 2.2 cm, tail 5.4 cm). The adult has plain brownish-grey upperparts, its dark brown tail is square ended and has white outer feathers. It has a slaty-grey crown and darker grey lores and ear-coverts. Its face looks horizontally divided between the dark mask and white lower-part down to the throat. It has pale grey flanks sometimes tinted pink, and a white breast, belly and vent. In fresh plumage, it may show a tiny pale supercilium, and pale buffish borders to the tertials and secondaries. Its bill is bluish-grey with black tip. It has brown to plumbeous-slate legs and feet. The male and the female look alike. The juvenile is buffy-brown with less grey. It breeds in Siberia in April-August. It feeds on insects.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Tesia cyaniventer
(Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler) -
Phylloscopus tristis
(Siberian Chiffchaff) -
Orthotomus atrogularis
(Dark‑necked Tailorbird) -
Pomatorhinus schisticeps
(Large Scimitar-babbler) -
Gampsorhynchus rufulus
(Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Prinia)) -
Malacocincla abbotti
(Streaked Wren-babbler) -
Phylloscopus burki
(Green-crowned Warbler) -
Phylloscopus castaniceps
(Greenish Warbler) -
Psittiparus ruficeps
(Striated Yuhina) -
Phylloscopus tenellipes
(Large‑billed Leaf-warbler)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Paul Cools (www.inaturalist.org/people/Paul Cools ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Alain Verneaumore information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Paul Cools (www.inaturalist.org/people/Paul Cools ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Alain Verneaumore information, please contact us.