#1438 · 🐦 birds

Marsh Wren

🇳🇱 Moeraswinterkoning ·Cistothorus palustris

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The marsh wren ( Cistothorus palustris ) is a small North American songbird of the wren family. It is sometimes called long-billed marsh wren to distinguish it from the sedge wren, also known as short-billed marsh wren.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,323iNaturalist observations
weight 10 gadult, up to
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.
20,323 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 10 g.
Scientifically named by Alexander Wilson in 1810 (216 years ago).