#0880 · 🐦 birds
Iberian Chiffchaff
🇳🇱 Iberische Tjiftjaf ·Phylloscopus ibericus
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what is it?
The Iberian chiffchaff ( Phylloscopus ibericus ) is a species of leaf warbler endemic to Portugal, Spain and North Africa, west of a line stretching roughly from the western Pyrenees via the mountains of central Spain to the Mediterranean.
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
- Spotted 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,535 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Claud Buchanan Ticehurst in 1937 (89 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Iberian Chiffchaff
- Nederlands
- Iberische Tjiftjaf
- scientific name
- Phylloscopus ibericus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Phylloscopidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 887
- sightings worldwide
- 1,535
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,468
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1937 by Claud Buchanan Ticehurst
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Phylloscopidae
#0591 📷 9Common Chiffchaff
🇳🇱 Tjiftjaf
Phylloscopus collybita
LC 👀 1.1k in NL
#0628 📷 8Willow Warbler
🇳🇱 Fitis
Phylloscopus trochilus
LC 👀 441 in NL
#0762 📷 8Wood Warbler
🇳🇱 Fluiter
Phylloscopus sibilatrix
LC 👀 42 in NL
#0779 📷 10Yellow-browed Warbler
🇳🇱 Bladkoning
Phylloscopus inornatus
LC 👀 35 in NL
#0799 📷 10Hume's Leaf Warbler
🇳🇱 Humes Bladkoning
Phylloscopus humei
LC 👀 25 in NL
#0825 📷 7Pallas's Leaf Warbler
🇳🇱 Pallas' Boszanger
Phylloscopus proregulus
LC 👀 16 in NL
#0885 📷 8Dusky Warbler
🇳🇱 Bruine Boszanger
Phylloscopus fuscatus
LC 👀 7 in NL
#0926 📷 10Greenish Warbler
🇳🇱 Grauwe Fitis
Phylloscopus trochiloides
LC 👀 4 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117027, Wikidata Q976787, GBIF 7341585, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.