#1241 · 🐦 birds

Eastern Orphean Warbler

🇳🇱 Oostelijke Orpheusgrasmus ·Curruca crassirostris

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The eastern Orphean warbler ( Curruca crassirostris ) is a typical warbler of the genus Curruca . This species occurs in summer around the Mediterranean, through the Balkans via Turkey, the Caucasus and surrounding regions to Central Asia. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 397iNaturalist 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.
397 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar in 1830 (196 years ago).