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title: "Thrush Nightingale"
description: "Luscinia luscinia — Vogels. The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), also known as the sprosser, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/thrush-nightingale
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Thrush Nightingale

> Luscinia luscinia — Vogels. The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), also known as the sprosser, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.

- Scientific name: *Luscinia luscinia*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 11313
- Wikidata: [Q206130](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206130)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13075](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13075)

## Names

- en: Thrush Nightingale
- de: Sprosser
- es: Ruiseñor Ruso
- fr: Rossignol progné
- pt: Rouxinol-oriental
- pl: Słowik szary

## Countries with the most observations

RU (8089), FI (401), UA (397), DK (123), BY (107), PL (91), SE (80), LT (76), IL (62), EE (43), RO (39), DE (27)

## Summary

The thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), also known as the sprosser, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is a migratory species breeding in forests in Europe and the Palearctic and overwintering in Africa. An insectivore, it nests near the ground in dense undergrowth. Its distribution is more northerly than the very closely related common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), which it closely resembles in appearance. Hybrids between the two have occurred in areas where their ranges overlap.
The thrush nightingale is similar in size to the European robin. Sexes are similar, both being…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrush_nightingale

## Photo

![Thrush Nightingale](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/thrush-nightingale/medium.jpg)

Photo: semion polenok · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13181336

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/thrush-nightingale?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).