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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Sylvia curruca - Lesser Whitethroat



Range & Status

Palearctic; in Britain and Ireland 80,000 pairs (chiefly England), decreasing.

Regional Distribution

Cornwall: uncommon summer visitor and passage migrant. Odd pairs have bred annually since 1977 at scattered sites over Cornwall; prior to this there had only been three breeding records. Isles of Scilly: uncommon migrant, chiefly in autumn; one old breeding record (Tresco 1965).

Habitat & Ecology

Overgrown hedgerows and tall thickets, chiefly in coastal areas and along lower reaches of estuaries. A number of territory-holding birds recorded each year seem not to attract mates.

Threats

None known.

Conservation

Listed (long list) as a globally threatened/declining species (BSGR, 1995).

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.