Editing Thrush nightingale (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
The thrush nightingale is a migrant species. It breeds in eastern Europe and the western part of temperate Asia. The northern limit of its summer range extends to [[Denmark]], southern [[Finland]], [[Norway]] and [[Sweden]], the [[Baltic States]], the [[Republic of Karelia]], [[Kostroma]], [[Vologda]], [[Perm, Russia|Perm]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Turkestan]] and [[Altai Mountains|Altai]]. The southern limit extends from [[Austria]] and the [[Czech Republic]], through [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], southern [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], the [[Crimea]] and northern [[Caucasus]]. It overwinters in Africa south of the [[Sahara]].<ref name=Witherby/> It is an occasional visitor to the British Isles.
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=130035 |title= Thrush Nightingale (''Luscinia luscinia'') |work=BirdGuides |access-date=2013-09-07}}</ref>

In its breeding range, the thrush nightingale is found in damp deciduous woodland typically with [[alder]] and [[birch]]. It favours thick undergrowth with [[bramble]]s, dense shrubs and tangled vegetation in swampy places and near water. In its winter quarters it is found in dense patches of thorn bush, especially in valley bottoms near water courses, and sometimes in thick vegetation at the edge of woodland.<ref name=Witherby>{{cite book |title=Handbook of British Birds, Volume 2: Warblers to Owls |editor-last=Witherby |editor-first=H. F. |year=1943 |publisher=H. F. and G. Witherby Ltd. |pages=192–193 }}</ref>

The bird is a host of the [[acanthocephala]]n intestinal parasite ''[[Apororhynchus silesiacus]]''.<ref name="Dimitrova">{{cite journal |last1=Dimitrova |first1=Z. M. |last2=Murai |first2=Éva |last3=Georgiev |first3=Boyko B. |date=1995 |title=The first record in Hungary of ''Apororhynchus silesiacus'' Okulewicz and Maruszewski, 1980 (Acanthocephala), with new data on its morphology |journal=Parasitologia Hungarica |volume=28 |pages=83–88|s2cid=82191853 |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/820a/8e75a6faeb29b9b11d8c817fb9bd53a39dd3.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109144123/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/820a/8e75a6faeb29b9b11d8c817fb9bd53a39dd3.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-11-09 }}</ref>