#1255 · 🐦 birds

Red-winged Blackbird

🇳🇱 Epauletspreeuw ·Agelaius phoeniceus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus ) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 317,508iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
317,508 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).