#1113 · 🐦 birds

Northern Waterthrush

🇳🇱 Noordse Waterlijster ·Parkesia noveboracensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jean-Guy Dallaire · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. S Valley Mills Dr, Waco, TX, US:© j0s13 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Central Park - North End, New York, NY, USA:© terence zahner · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Wisconsin, US:© VeeLorelei · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Cochrane, CA-ON, CA:© Riley-Brendan Walsh · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Corozal District, Belize:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. El Conchalito, La Paz, B.C.S., México:© Eduardo Fernández Reza · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Port Arthur, TX, USA:© michaelkalisek · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. La Paz, B.C.S., México:© MarvalPhotography19 · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The northern waterthrush ( Parkesia noveboracensis ) is one of the larger New World warblers and one of the Nearctic-Neotropical migratory songbirds. It breeds in the northern part of North America in Canada and the northern United States including Alaska. This bird is migratory, wintering in Central America, the West Indies and Florida, as well as in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. It is a very rare vagrant to other South American countries and to western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,403iNaturalist 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.
19,403 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).