Unusual Common Nightingale song phrase? Prague, April 2024 (1 Viewer)

[rubatroid]

Hi all,

I was recording a Nightingale singing while out on an early morning walk in Prague in April (specifically, in Přírodní park Košíře-Motol), and had an unusual song phrase in the middle of the recording. I think it must be the Nightingale itself, because it runs into a more typical Nightingale phrase. But I've not heard Nightingale do this particular riff before, it sounded quite warbler'y. Interested to hear if anyone else has heard this before? I guess Nightingale always have the capacity to surprise us!

Thanks,

Reuben

 

[CARERY]

I agree it seems a bit off, but still to me it sounds like part of the Common Nightingale song... It just merges too well into the usual elements

 

[MJB]

Hi all,

I was recording a Nightingale singing while out on an early morning walk in Prague in April (specifically, in Přírodní park Košíře-Motol), and had an unusual song phrase in the middle of the recording. I think it must be the Nightingale itself, because it runs into a more typical Nightingale phrase. But I've not heard Nightingale do this particular riff before, it sounded quite warbler'y. Interested to hear if anyone else has heard this before? I guess Nightingale always have the capacity to surprise us!

Thanks,

Reuben

Although I have heard Common Nightingale utter phrases like this, it does sound much less powerful and less rich in tone than I would expect. I'm inclined to think it might be a Marsh Warbler mimicking, for it has been recorded doing so for about 200 species (the majority in wintering areas); it also breeds in Czechia and usually has begun to arrive on territory in numbers by mid-April. I've had it excellently mimicking Barred Warbler in Slovakia...
MJB