#0934 · 🐦 birds

Aquatic Warbler

🇳🇱 Waterrietzanger ·Acrocephalus paludicola

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © ulysse_lafond · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Юрий Янкевич · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © ulysse_lafond · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Eugene Archer · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Klaipedos, LT:© Renata Jusevičienė · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 44310 Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu, France:© ulysse_lafond · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 29720 Tréguennec, France:© Georges Olioso · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Chełm, PL-LU, PL:© dr Maciej Buchalik · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Vitsyebsk, BY:© semion_levy · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Brest, BY:© Vladislav Mochalov · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The aquatic warbler ( Acrocephalus paludicola ) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus . It breeds in temperate eastern Europe and western Asia, with an estimated population of 15,000 pairs. It is migratory, wintering in west Africa. After many years of uncertainty, the wintering grounds of much of the European population were finally discovered in Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal, with between 5-10,000 birds present at this single site. Its south-westerly migration route means that it...

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 202iNaturalist observations
weight 10.5 gadult, up to
threat VUvulnerable

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).