The willow warbler, easily confused with other visitors, breeds throughout Britain, from Cornwall to Shetland What’s the commonest summer visitor to our shores? The swallow perhaps, or the swift? The ...
Until the naturalist Gilbert White separated these two species by their song, it was thought the chiffchaff and the willow warbler were one and the same species. The diminutive willow warbler is one ...
Common chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita (protonym, Sylvia collybita), Vieillot, 1817, also known as the chiffchaff or as the chiffchaff leaf-warbler, Eurasian chiffchaff, northern chiffchaff or as ...
Early naturalists struggled to identify and name the birds known generically as ‘warblers’,and in particular, to separate out the willow warbler and the chiffchaff. Did you know with a Digital ...
Songs of spring... keep an ear out for the willow warbler I have heard, on a couple of sorties through a laneway bounded by walled gardens, the unexpected descending trills of what is probably a ...
A chiffchaff is about 10-11 centimetres long with a wingspan of 17-18 centimetres. They are a common breeding species here on woodland, farmland, and in gardens in Spring, Summer and Autumn. A ...
An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the chiffchaff and the willow warbler with Bill Oddie, Simon Barnes and Kate Humble. Show more Until the naturalist Gilbert White separated these two ...
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