A small warbler with dark cheeks contrasting with a pale throat. Wild birds in the UK mainly eat insects in spring and summer, then berries in autumn.
Dark cheek feathers contrast with the pale throat, and the outer tail feathers are white.
In the UK it occurs in woodland, farmland, and grassland. It mainly eats insects in spring and summer, then feeds on berries before migration in autumn.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.