English: Blackcap, Black-capped Warbler
Russian: Черноголовая славка           
Mongolian: Халимагт зэржигэнэ
German: Monchsgrasmucke
French: Fauvette a tete noire  
Japanese: ズグロムシクイ (Zuguro-mushikui)     

Body length:  13 ½ -15 cm.

Breeds in shady woodland with dense under-storey, in parks and gardens with rank undergrowth. In Britain & Ireland common in deciduous and mixed wood-land. A common bird over large parts of C and S Europe. Migratory in N and E, short-distance migrant or resident in W and S. Nests low down in bush.

Identification: Rather stocky build, roughly as Garden Warbler. Dirty grey above and light olive-grey below, ♂ has small black cap (reaches only to upper part of eye; cf. the small-bodied and big-headed tits,p. 334, which have larger black cap as well as a black bib), ♀ and juvenile with red-brown cap. 1st-winter ♂ has cap brown, black or a mixture of both colors. Tail invariably lacks white. Bill and legs grey.