#1401 · 🐦 birds

Ash-throated Flycatcher

🇳🇱 Grijskeeltiran ·Myiarchus cinerascens

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Len Blumin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Maggie.Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nick Chill · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Roger Shaw · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © David A. Hofmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. San Diego County, US-CA, US:© W. Terry Hunefeld · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Ahwatukee Foothills Village, Phoenix, AZ, USA:© Gordon Karre · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Los Cabos, BCS, Mexico:© Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0
10. Middlebury, VT 05753, USA:© Sam Darmstadt · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The ash-throated flycatcher ( Myiarchus cinerascens ) is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in desert scrub, riparian forest, brushy pastures and open woodland from the western United States to central Mexico. S. and northern and central Mexico, spending the winter from southern Mexico to Honduras. This bird is also prone to wander, with single birds often seen outside its normal breeding range as...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,806iNaturalist 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.
24,806 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by George Newbold Lawrence in 1851 (175 years ago).