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Common nightingale

Luscinia megarhynchos

Photo by April
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Plain brown perching bird

Habitat:

Near urban garden

Notes:

Found on the ground and was seriously injured (later died). It probably crashed into the glass windows of the building.

Reference Links:

Luscinia megarhynchos (Brehm, 1831), Nightingale

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
Elsa
Hi April, I would love for you to add your Qatar spottings to the Qatar's Biodiversity group http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/17202753
April
Thanks Alice. It's body is being donated to science. It will become a specimen in the university collection.

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Mission
WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
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PublishedMay 16, 2011

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