File:Luscinia_megarhynchos_-_Common_nightingale_-_Nachtegaal_(cropped).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
The Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a species within the genus Luscinia. It is classified as a taxon of the class Aves. The species was described by Brehm in 1831. It has been awarded the title of Bird of the Year.
Its range includes Africa. The IUCN lists its conservation status as Least Concern, a designation recorded in 2024. Physical characteristics include a mass of 2.65, a wingspan of 24, and a diurnal activity cycle. Reproductive data indicates an egg incubation period of 14 days and an average litter size of 4.5.
The species is the subject of 17,078 observations on iNaturalist. It is referenced by 562 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, IUCN Red List, iNaturalist, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Least ConcernCommon Nightingale
species
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Luscinia
- Award
- Bird of the Year
- Mass
- 2.65
- Image
- Luscinia megarhynchos golzii, Khorog, Tajikistan 1.jpg
Show 14 more facts
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Luscinia megarhynchos
- Commons category
- Luscinia megarhynchos
- Commons gallery
- Luscinia megarhynchos
- wingspan
- 24
- litter size
- 4.5
- egg incubation period
- 14
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- short name
- L. megarhynchos
- taxon range
- Africa
- taxon common name
- nightingale, common nightingale
- taxon author citation
- Brehm, 1831
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful and beautiful song. An Old World flycatcher, it belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats. Its range partly overlaps with that of the more northerly thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), a closely related species with which hybrids have occurred.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Common Nightingale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (7)
Available in 86 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Armenian
- Asturian
- azb
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Balinese
Show 67 more
- Basque
- Breton
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chuvash
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
- eml
- Erzya
- Esperanto
- Faroese
- Filipino
- Finnish
- Galician
- Greek
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Ido
- Irish
- Kabyle
- Kazakh
- Kurdish
- Ladino
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Lombard
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Mazanderani
- Neapolitan
- Nederlands
- Northern Frisian
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Occitan
- Picard
- Piedmontese
- Polski
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Rusyn
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Sicilian
- simple
- Sindhi
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Svenska
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Walloon
- Waray
- Western Frisian
- Wu Chinese
- Yakut
- zh_yue
- فارسی
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0