#0753 · 🐦 birds
Common Grasshopper Warbler
🇳🇱 Sprinkhaanzanger ·Locustella naevia
📍 4328 Burgh-Haamstede, Netherlands
📍 Roderwolde, Nederland
📍 Schoorl, Netherlands
📍 Werkendam, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Яков Любченко · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Константин Самодуров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Александр · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © vyatka · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © franciscodocampo · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 4328 Burgh-Haamstede, Netherlands:© Steven Schulting · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Roderwolde, Nederland:© KJ · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Schoorl, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Werkendam, Netherlands:© Dion · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The common grasshopper warbler ( Locustella naevia ) is a species of Old World warbler in the grass warbler genus Locustella . It breeds across much of temperate Europe and western Asia. It is migratory, wintering in north and west Africa. The genus name Locustella is from Latin and is a diminutive of locusta , "grasshopper". Like the English name, this refers to the characteristic insect-like song of the common grasshopper warbler and some others in this genus. The specific...
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
- Spotted 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,113 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 (243 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Grasshopper Warbler
- Nederlands
- Sprinkhaanzanger
- scientific name
- Locustella naevia
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Locustellidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 57
- sightings in Europe
- 2,517
- sightings worldwide
- 4,113
- GBIF records in NL
- 34,145
- weight
- —
- length
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- lifespan
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- named
- 1783 by Pieter Boddaert
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Locustellidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 116941, Wikidata Q208710, GBIF 2493548, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.