#1094 · 🐦 birds
Tennessee Warbler
🇳🇱 Tennesseezanger ·Leiothlypis peregrina
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what is it?
The Tennessee warbler ( Leiothlypis peregrina ) is a New World warbler that breeds in eastern North America and winters in southern Central America and northern South America. The specific peregrina is from Latin peregrinus "wanderer".
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.
- 29,065 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 10 g.
- Scientifically named by Alexander Wilson in 1811 (215 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tennessee Warbler
- Nederlands
- Tennesseezanger
- scientific name
- Leiothlypis peregrina
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Parulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3
- sightings worldwide
- 29,065
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- 9.6 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1811 by Alexander Wilson
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Parulidae
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Setophaga coronata
LC 🌍 244.9k seen
#1046 📷 7Common Yellowthroat
🇳🇱 Gewone Maskerzanger
Geothlypis trichas
LC 🌍 87.3k seen
#1047 📷 9Northern Yellow Warbler
🇳🇱 Gele Zanger
Setophaga aestiva
🌍 87.2k seen
#1302 📷 10Palm Warbler
🇳🇱 Palmzanger
Setophaga palmarum
LC 🌍 58.1k seen
#1062 📷 10American Redstart
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Roodstaart
Setophaga ruticilla
LC 🌍 57.4k seen
#1304 📷 8Orange-crowned Warbler
🇳🇱 Groene Zanger
Leiothlypis celata
LC 🌍 57.3k seen
#1065 📷 7Black-and-white Warbler
🇳🇱 Bonte Zanger
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LC 🌍 52.9k seen
#1324 📷 8Wilson's Warbler
🇳🇱 Wilsons Zanger
Cardellina pusilla
LC 🌍 42.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 979756, Wikidata Q126925, GBIF 7415507, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.