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  "path": "/wiki/birds/eurasian-blackcap/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "_Sylvia atricapilla_ male · Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA\n\nInfo\n\nCommon name: Eurasian Blackcap\nScientific name: _Sylvia atricapilla_\n\nThe Eurasian blackcap — _Sylvia atricapilla_ — is one of Europe’s finest songsters, sometimes called the “northern nightingale” for the quality and richness of its song. The male is unmistakable: plain grey-brown above, pale grey below, crowned with a jet-black cap. The female and immatures wear a warm chestnut-brown cap instead.\n\nA typical warbler of woodland edges, scrub, and parks, the blackcap is a summer visitor across most of Europe that winters in sub-Saharan Africa and around the Mediterranean. In Portugal, resident populations have grown, and a remarkable adaptation has emerged: a proportion of the population originating from Central Europe now winters in Britain and Ireland rather than Africa, navigating using a genetically shifted migratory direction.\n\nIts song is a rich, melodious warble that accelerates into a loud, fluting finish — quite distinct from other warblers and often the first clue to its presence in dense vegetation.\n\n* * *\n\n## Song & Call\n\nRecording XC425726 via xeno-canto.org — Creative Commons licensed.\n\n* * *\n\n**First recorded:** 26 May 2026 · Cruz de Argola, Guimarães, Portugal",
  "title": "Eurasian Blackcap"
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