#1056 · 🐦 birds

Hermit Thrush

🇳🇱 Heremietlijster ·Catharus guttatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © matthew_wills · CC BY-NC 4.0
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3. © kirk gardner · CC BY 4.0
4. © Cyrus Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © matthew_wills · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Lauren Glevanik · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Craig K. Hunt · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Gonzalo Zepeda Martínez · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0
10. © DigiBirdTrek · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The hermit thrush ( Catharus guttatus ) is a medium-sized North American thrush. It is not very closely related to the other North American migrant species of Catharus , but rather to the Mexican russet nightingale-thrush.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 66,612iNaturalist 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.
66,612 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811 (215 years ago).