Sunny areas with open spaces and some shrub cover and/or clumps of trees, like patches of scrub, clearings in pinewoods and Eucalyptus woods, cropland, pastureland, valleys of rivers and streams, etc.
SEASONAL BEHAVIOUR Most stay with us from April to September.
DISTRIBUTION Absent or scarce in most of Huelva and Seville. More numerous in C贸rdoba and Ja茅n.
COMMENTS Its percussive song has won it onomatopoeic local nicknames like capacho, gapacho and especially zumaya, zamaya or azamaya. Sometimes enters towns to hunt moths round streetlights.