A small bird that darts through low scrub and often flicks its long tail.
It has a long tail and moves quickly through scrub. Males have a gray head, white throat, brown back, and pale underparts.
In Britain it breeds in scrub, farmland, and reedbeds. It arrives around mid-April, most have left by the end of September, and it winters south of the Sahara.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.