Woodland Trust

Nature's CalendarNature Detectives

Is spring late where you live? Take a walk in the woods and see what you can find to record

whitethroat

Sylvia communis

  • Characteristic white throat
     
  • Male has contrasting grey crown
     
  • Both sexes have rusty grey/brown topsides and tinted pale underparts
     
  • A varied, scratchy song
     

Where foundrecord

Gardens, woods, heaths and hedges- over most of the UK except the highlands.

When to look for

A summer visitor from April / May.