In Iran quite a few species that are common and widespread in Europe reach a limit in their distribution or are represented by somewhat isolated populations. XC holds a modest number of recordings from Iran , and Cedric Mroczko recently added a nice set . He reached the most northeasterly point for many species in the country in Golestan. Among those was this strange sounding Dunnock, probably of ssp. obscura.

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