#1306 · 🐦 birds

Brewer's Blackbird

🇳🇱 Brewers Troepiaal ·Euphagus cyanocephalus

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Ross Millikan · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Michael Long · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Lip Kee · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Lynette Schimming · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Jamie Chavez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Chris Fisher · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Brewer's blackbird ( Euphagus cyanocephalus ) is a medium-sized New World blackbird. It is named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 53,480iNaturalist observations
weight 67.2 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

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.
53,480 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 67 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 (197 years ago).