Lesser Whitethroat

The lesser whitethroat is a small warbler, slightly smaller than the common whitethroat, with a grey back, whitish underparts, a grey head with a darker bandit mask and a white throat. The sexes look nearly alike. Its song is a fast rattle of tet or che calls. It lives in fairly open country and cultivation with large bushes and some trees, eating mainly insects and also berries and soft fruit (Wikipedia, general species account).

It nests in low shrubs or brambles, laying three to seven eggs. It breeds across temperate Europe and the western and central Palearctic and is strongly migratory, wintering in Africa south of the Sahara, Arabia and India. The source does not name Nepal. Linnaeus described it in 1758, it is now placed in Curruca, and six subspecies are generally accepted (Wikipedia, general species account).