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lesser whitethroat in British English (ˈlɛsə ˈwaɪtˌθrəʊt) nounan Old World warbler, Sylvia curruca, having a greyish-brown plumage with a white throat and underparts Examples of 'lesser whitethroat' in a sentencelesser whitethroat The male lesser whitethroat has exactly the opposite disposition.I can also distinguish a whitethroat from a lesser whitethroat without seeing either.The fourth singleton of the year was a lesser whitethroat.There are two of them — the common whitethroat and the lesser whitethroat.The fruity fluting of blackcap from a hawthorn; the chiming of chiffchaff from the tall oak, and in the hedges, the rattle of lesser whitethroat.Why go to the trouble of learning whitethroat when, on the next page, you see lesser whitethroat of all things.However, one of the most remarkable winter stayers that has been recorded was a lesser whitethroat in the winter of 2002-03.One lesser whitethroat was found with a tag showing it was nine years old, two years more than the previous record.A few lesser whitethroats are also lingering.Male lesser whitethroats behave in quite the opposite way. |