#0861 · 🐦 birds
Blyth's Reed Warbler
🇳🇱 Struikrietzanger ·Acrocephalus dumetorum
📍 Valdoviño, La Coruña, España
📍 Приволжский р-н, Казань, Респ. Татарстан, Россия
📍 19, Брянцево Большое, Московская обл., Россия, 142152
📍 VH64+FJW Anjanapura Central Park, Anjanapura 7th Block, Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560108, India
📍 virajpet, india
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Olavi60 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Dmitry Dubikovskiy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Михаил Соколов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrey Gulivanov · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Alexander Yakovlev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Valdoviño, La Coruña, España:© maria meizoso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Приволжский р-н, Казань, Респ. Татарстан, Россия:© Татьяна Гилязова · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 19, Брянцево Большое, Московская обл., Россия, 142152:© szss · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. VH64+FJW Anjanapura Central Park, Anjanapura 7th Block, Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560108, India:© Vinay Herle G · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. virajpet, india:© Vipin Baliga · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus dumetorum ) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus . It breeds in the Palearctic and easternmost Europe. It is migratory, wintering in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. It is one of the most common winter warblers in those countries. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 14,995 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 2 g.
- Scientifically named by Edward Blyth in 1849 (177 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blyth's Reed Warbler
- Nederlands
- Struikrietzanger
- scientific name
- Acrocephalus dumetorum
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Acrocephalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 5,696
- sightings worldwide
- 14,995
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,382
- weight
- 1.7 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1849 by Edward Blyth
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Acrocephalidae
#0601 📷 10Sedge Warbler
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Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
LC 👀 863 in NL
#0643 📷 8Common Reed Warbler
🇳🇱 Kleine Karekiet
Acrocephalus scirpaceus
LC 👀 322 in NL
#0727 📷 10Marsh Warbler
🇳🇱 Bosrietzanger
Acrocephalus palustris
LC 👀 90 in NL
#0736 📷 7Icterine Warbler
🇳🇱 Spotvogel
Hippolais icterina
LC 👀 78 in NL
#0772 📷 7Great Reed Warbler
🇳🇱 Grote Karekiet
Acrocephalus arundinaceus
LC 👀 37 in NL
#0847 📷 7Melodious Warbler
🇳🇱 Orpheusspotvogel
Hippolais polyglotta
LC 👀 11 in NL
#0933 📷 10Moustached Warbler
🇳🇱 Zwartkoprietzanger
Acrocephalus melanopogon
LC 👀 4 in NL
#0934 📷 10Aquatic Warbler
🇳🇱 Waterrietzanger
Acrocephalus paludicola
VU 👀 4 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 116797, Wikidata Q312779, GBIF 2493145, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
