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Nightingale

Relatives to thrushes – nightingales have very modest looks, female and male birds look similar.  They have olive-brown back plumage, pale grey underbody and reddish brown tail. Nightingales prefer hidden life in thick shrubbery, but also on lower branches of tree crowns. On the ground, the „singers“ move in long jumps like thrushes – tail upwards, body bobbing. In daytime, they avoid flights across open fields.

 

The „clicker“ is sometimes quite trusting towards people, then one can study the nightingale from a few steps away.