#1449 · 🐦 birds
Daurian Redstart
🇳🇱 Spiegelroodstaart ·Phoenicurus auroreus
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what is it?
The Daurian redstart ( Phoenicurus auroreus ) is a small passerine bird from temperate Asia. In Japan, it is known as jōbitaki (ジョウビタキ).
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 19,608 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Daurian Redstart
- Nederlands
- Spiegelroodstaart
- scientific name
- Phoenicurus auroreus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Muscicapidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 19,608
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Muscicapidae
#0550 📷 9European Robin
🇳🇱 Roodborst
Erithacus rubecula
LC 👀 3.1k in NL
#0565 📷 9European Stonechat
🇳🇱 Roodborsttapuit
Saxicola rubicola
👀 2.1k in NL
#0617 📷 9Bluethroat
🇳🇱 Blauwborst
Luscinia svecica
LC 👀 568 in NL
#0627 📷 10Northern Wheatear
🇳🇱 Tapuit
Oenanthe oenanthe
LC 👀 458 in NL
#0647 📷 8Common Redstart
🇳🇱 Gekraagde Roodstaart
Phoenicurus phoenicurus
LC 👀 299 in NL
#0665 📷 10Spotted Flycatcher
🇳🇱 Grauwe Vliegenvanger
Muscicapa striata
LC 👀 237 in NL
#0671 📷 10Black Redstart
🇳🇱 Zwarte Roodstaart
Phoenicurus ochruros
LC 👀 222 in NL
#0681 📷 10European Pied Flycatcher
🇳🇱 Bonte vliegenvanger
Ficedula hypoleuca
LC 👀 201 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 12993, Wikidata Q616456, GBIF 5231223, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.