Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies
Thrush Nightingale
Luscinia luscinia
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies (Muscicapidae)
- Order
- Passeriformes
Overview
The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), also known as the sprosser, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is a migratory species breeding in forests in Europe and the Palearctic and overwintering in Africa. An insectivore, it nests near the ground in dense undergrowth. Its distribution is more northerly than the very closely related common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), which it closely resembles in appearance.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds northern Eurasia; winters to eastern and southern Africa.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belarus
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Malawi
- Moldova
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Palestine
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Thrush nightingale
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
