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Common Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos Brehm, CL, 1831
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Common Nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, breeds across central and western parts of the Palearctic and winters in Africa. It is a passerine in the Muscicapidae, the chat and Old World flycatcher family, and was described by Brehm, CL in 1831. The bird is best known for its powerful song, which is especially associated with the male. It is a migratory species that breeds in forest and scrub, usually near the ground in dense cover. The sexes are similar, and the species is partly overlapped in range by the thrush nightingale, with which hybrids have occurred.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: c, w
- Nonbreeding range
- Africa
