Habitat
Main requirement for breeding sites are low dense vegetation with patches of open ground. Bluethroats occupy mountain steppe, meadows, and subalpine scrub with low woody cover at 1.900 - 2.400 m a.s.l.
Food & Feeding
Primarily invertebrates, chiefly insects, with some seeds and fruit in autumn. Insects include adult and larval beetles, ants, sawflies, flies, mayflies, stoneflies, caddis flies, bugs, earwigs, grasshoppers, bush-crickets and dragonflies. The food id taken on the ground and in low vegetation, gleaning from stems and low leaves; occasionally catches flying insects.
Breeding
Starts from early April to June. Monogamous and territorial, but overlaps between defended areas often happens. Nest is a deep cup of leaves, small twigs, and dry grass, set among grass and scrub on the ground. Eggs 4–7, incubation takes 13 days, nestling period takes 13–14 days.
Movements
Complete migrant, which leaves the country in late August, reaching peak passage in early Sept. The wintering of the species is recorded in Africa and Southern Asia, and it is still unclear, where the Armenian Birds stay overwinter.
Family
Old World Flycatchers
Source of information
The Handbook to the Birds of the World
The Birds of the Western Palearctic