#1251 · 🐦 birds

Olive-tree Warbler

🇳🇱 Griekse Spotvogel ·Hippolais olivetorum

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Derek Keats · CC BY 4.0
2. © Derek Keats · CC BY 4.0
3. © Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jeremy Barker · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Joubert Heymans · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Umut Güngör · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, South Africa:© Alex Rebelo · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Akseki/Antalya, Turkey:© A Emmerson · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Mopani District Municipality, South Africa:© simonescrase · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Ras El-Khashufeh, Syria:© Ali Ali · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The olive-tree warbler ( Hippolais olivetorum ) is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais . It breeds in southeast Europe and the near east. It is migratory, wintering in eastern and southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 134iNaturalist observations
weight 17.5 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.
134 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 18 g.
Scientifically named by Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1837 (189 years ago).