#1239 · 🐦 birds

Western Olivaceous Warbler

🇳🇱 Westelijke Vale Spotvogel ·Iduna opaca

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © abcdefgewing · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ron Knight · CC BY 4.0
5. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Kombo South, The Gambia:© Stephen Moores · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 41565 Gilena, Sevilla, España:© naturantonioj · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. باب تاغزوت, مراكش ـ تانسيفت ـ الحوز, المغرب:© Gary Leavens · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain:© Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
10. Melilla, España:© Miguel · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The western olivaceous warbler , also known as isabelline warbler , ( Iduna opaca ) is a "warbler", formerly placed in the Old World warblers when these were a paraphyletic wastebin taxon. It is now considered a member of the acrocephaline warblers, Acrocephalidae, in the tree warbler genus Iduna . It was formerly regarded as part of a wider "olivaceous warbler" species, but as a result of modern taxonomic developments, this species is now usually considered distinct from the eastern olivaceous...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 417iNaturalist 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.
417 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jean Cabanis in 1850 (176 years ago).