Additional Information
English Common Whitethroat
Scientific (Curruca communis)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Sylviidae
Family (English) Sylviid Babblers
Other name(s) Greater Whitethroat, Fauvette grisette, Whitethroat
Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions AF
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Somalia,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Portugal,Nigeria,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Mali,Croatia,Swaziland,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Serbia,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Belarus,Netherlands,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Belgium,Burkina Faso,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Libya,Rwanda,Syria,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,China,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Oman,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Andorra,Albania,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Congo,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
communis Europe to n Turkey and n Africa
volgensis se European Russia, w Siberia and n Kazakhstan
icterops c Turkey to Turkmenistan and Iran
rubicola mountains of c Asia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Latham, 1787)
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German Dorngrasmücke
French Fauvette grisette
Chinese 灰白喉林莺
Japanese ノドジロムシクイ
Russian Серая славка
Spanish Curruca zarcera
Portuguese papa-amoras-comum
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)