#0665 · 🐦 birds

Spotted Flycatcher

🇳🇱 Grauwe Vliegenvanger ·Muscicapa striata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Ximo Galarza · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Javisa Hun · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Volker Heinrich · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Marton Berntsen · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Rotterdam Rechter Maasoever, Rotterdam, Netherlands:© Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland:© wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland, Overveen, Noord-Holland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Laren, Nederland:© Robbert van 't Veldt · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The spotted flycatcher ( Muscicapa striata ) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia, and is migratory, wintering in Africa and south western Asia. It is declining in parts of its range.

base stats

NL sightings 237iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 45,483iNaturalist observations
weight 1.9 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).