Yesterday I saw (for the first time in my life) a whitethroat among the leaves of a carob tree A nice surprise for these lockdown days.
The warbler family in Spain Spanish is not as straight forward as in English (the same can be said about the tit family), many Spanish names are included in the single term "warbler". The willow warbler belongs to the "mosquito eating" family (mosquitero) while the Sardinian warbler is a "curruca", just as the whitethroat or the Dartford Warbler, they're all "curruca". The whitethroat is called "curruca zarcera", the curruca that dwells among the brambles, and then there's the spectacled warbler, which is also curruca, but "curruca tomillera" in this case, literally, the curruca that dwells among the thyme. It is such a fascinating exercise to check the name of species in many languages (besides its Latin name), because it gives so many unexpected clues
The warbler family in Spain Spanish is not as straight forward as in English (the same can be said about the tit family), many Spanish names are included in the single term "warbler". The willow warbler belongs to the "mosquito eating" family (mosquitero) while the Sardinian warbler is a "curruca", just as the whitethroat or the Dartford Warbler, they're all "curruca". The whitethroat is called "curruca zarcera", the curruca that dwells among the brambles, and then there's the spectacled warbler, which is also curruca, but "curruca tomillera" in this case, literally, the curruca that dwells among the thyme. It is such a fascinating exercise to check the name of species in many languages (besides its Latin name), because it gives so many unexpected clues