#1114 · 🐦 birds

Blue Rock-Thrush

🇳🇱 Blauwe Rotslijster ·Monticola solitarius

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The blue rock thrush ( Monticola solitarius ) is a species of chat. This thrush-like Old World flycatcher was formerly placed in the family Turdidae. It breeds in southern Europe, northwest Africa, and from central Asia to northern China and Malaysia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,799iNaturalist observations
weight 6 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.
18,799 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 6 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).