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Female Blackcap

Blackcaps are quite chunky birds, about the size of Chaffinches with fine dark beaks.

Both sexes are mostly grey in colour and a best distinguished by the colour of their cap. Adult males displays are black cap that gives the species its common name, while females have a chestnut- brown cap.

Its delightful fluting song has earned it the name "northern nightingale"

 

Isn't she beautiful!

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Uploaded on August 17, 2022
Taken on August 9, 2016