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Every day, people visit by the thousand: runners, outdoor swimmers, tourists, bird-lovers on the trail of whitethroats and blackcaps in the bushes or goldfinches and kestrels in the trees.

Various species including the Eurasian skylark and the common whitethroat have seen their numbers decline by a third over the past 15 years, while the number of partridges has slumped by 80 percent.

Peggy, peg′i, n. one of several small warblers, the whitethroat, &c.

A Canada whitethroat called sweetly, sadly, from the forest in the sunset glow.

Scientists in Italy have found that European songbirds, such as the whitethroat pictured here, drink flower nectar whilst on island "rest-stops" along their migration routes from Africa.