#1420 · 🐦 birds

Cactus Wren

🇳🇱 Cactuswinterkoning ·Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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1. © Gordon Karre · CC BY-NC 4.0
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9. © José Belem Hernández Díaz · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The cactus wren ( Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus ) is a species of wren that is native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,184iNaturalist 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.
22,184 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1835 (191 years ago).