Bird school

• Brambling
• Blue tit
• Bullfinch
• Blackbird
• Barn swallow
• Bohemian waxwing
• Black woodpecker
• Black redstart
• Blackcap
• Chaffinch
• Chiffchaff
• Crow
• Coal tit
• Crested tit
• Common swift
• Common treecreeper
• Dunnock
• Fieldfare
• Greenfinch
• Goldfinch
• Greater woodpecker
• Garden warbler
• Great tit
• Green woodpecker
• House martin
• House sparrow
• Hawfinch
• Jackdaw
• Linnet
• Long-tailed tit
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser spotted woodpecker
• Marsh tit
• Magpie
• Mistle thrush
• Nightingale
• Nuthatch
• Pheasant
• Pied flycatcher
• Redpoll
• Rook
• Redstart
• Robin
• Spotted flycatcher
• Siskin
• Starling
• Song thrush
• Yellowhammer
• Winter wren
• Willow
• Tree sparrow
• Wood pigeon
• White wagtail
• Willow tit
• Whitethroat

The blackcap

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The male The female

The blackcap is an astonishing singer, in the same league as the nightingale.

Appearance
Is easy to recognize by the male’s black and the females reddish-brown cap. The back of the male is grey with darker greyish-brown wings and light greyish-white underneath while the female is browner.

Similar bird
Separated from the tits because of a larger size, more slender body and a smaller black cap (barely reaches down to the eyes).

Sounds and song
The song reminds of that of the garden warbler but is shorter, 4-6 seconds. A mellow start is followed by a beautiful fluting finish. Can be heard both in the spring and summer.

Food and bird tables
Rarely seen at the bird table.
Lives exclusively off insects which it finds in trees and shrubs.

The nest and hollows
The nest is placed in shrubs close to the ground and consists of a bowl of blades and thin twigs.