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The Whitethroat

And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!

From Home-Thoughts, from Abroad by Robert Browning

The whitethroat (Sylvia communis) remains (with 1.1 million UK territories) the fourth most populous of the summer migrant warblers.

The best time to see them is on their

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