#1057 · 🐦 birds
Northern Harrier
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Blauwe Kiekendief ·Circus hudsonius
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what is it?
The northern harrier or marsh hawk ( Circus hudsonius or Circus cyaneus hudsonius ) is a bird of prey.
base stats
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.
- 62,192 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Harrier
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Blauwe Kiekendief
- scientific name
- Circus hudsonius
- class
- Aves
- order
- Accipitriformes
- family
- Accipitridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 30
- sightings worldwide
- 62,192
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Accipitridae
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Buteo buteo
LC 👀 4.1k in NL
#0584 📷 9Western Marsh Harrier
🇳🇱 Bruine Kiekendief
Circus aeruginosus
LC 👀 1.2k in NL
#0609 📷 10Eurasian Sparrowhawk
🇳🇱 Sperwer
Accipiter nisus
LC 👀 694 in NL
#0622 📷 8White-tailed Eagle
🇳🇱 Zeearend
Haliaeetus albicilla
LC 👀 494 in NL
#0654 📷 10Hen Harrier
🇳🇱 Blauwe Kiekendief
Circus cyaneus
LC 👀 271 in NL
#0655 📷 9European Honey-buzzard
🇳🇱 Wespendief
Pernis apivorus
LC 👀 268 in NL
#0656 📷 10Eurasian Goshawk
🇳🇱 Havik
Astur gentilis
LC 👀 261 in NL
#0713 📷 10Red Kite
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Milvus milvus
LC 👀 135 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 558446, Wikidata Q2603050, GBIF 6101217, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.