#1324 · 🐦 birds

Wilson's Warbler

🇳🇱 Wilsons Zanger ·Cardellina pusilla

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Warren Cronan · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jozef K. Richards · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © JanetandPhil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © David Ruíz Domínguez · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Stephen DeHart · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Michael Woodruff · CC BY 4.0
7. © JanetandPhil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Wilson's warbler ( Cardellina pusilla ) is a small New World warbler. It is greenish above and yellow below, with rounded wings and a long, slim tail. The male has a black crown patch; depending on the subspecies, that mark is reduced or absent in the female. It breeds across Canada and south through the western United States, and winters from Mexico south through much of Central America. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 42,080iNaturalist 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.
42,080 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Alexander Wilson in 1811 (215 years ago).