#1452 · 🐦 birds
Eastern Yellow Robin
🇳🇱 Groenstuitvliegenvanger ·Eopsaltria australis
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what is it?
The eastern yellow robin ( Eopsaltria australis ) is an Australasian robin of coastal and sub-coastal eastern Australia. The extent of the eastern yellow robin's residence is from the extreme southeast corner of South Australia through most of Victoria and the western half of New South Wales and north as far as Cooktown. Tropical Northern Queensland birds are mainly restricted to the warm heights of the Great Dividing Range.
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.
- 19,191 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 22 g.
- Scientifically named by George Shaw in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Yellow Robin
- Nederlands
- Groenstuitvliegenvanger
- scientific name
- Eopsaltria australis
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Petroicidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 19,191
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 22 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by George Shaw
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 14153, Wikidata Q1082147, GBIF 2489301, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.