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Its plumage is otherwise plain — grey-brown above, paler grey below — but the head carries the species' defining field mark: a neat, sharply defined cap that is glossy black in the male and warm chestnut-brown in the female, a clean sexual difference that makes the species one of the easier warblers to sex confidently in the field.",[15,33,34],{},"Beyond the cap, blackcaps show few other strong markings, relying on their generally plain, unstreaked grey-brown plumage and slim build to distinguish them from other small warblers, most reliably confirmed by the combination of overall shape, the distinctive cap, and, especially, the species' rich, distinctive song.",[10,36,38],{"id":37},"range-and-habitat","Range and habitat",[15,40,41,42,45,46,49],{},"The Eurasian blackcap breeds across nearly all of Europe and extends into western Russia and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. 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