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Eastern Bonelli's Warbler

🇳🇱 Balkanbergfluiter ·Phylloscopus orientalis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Johanna Beam · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Eastern Bonelli's warbler (sometimes known as Balkan warbler ) is a "warbler" in the leaf warbler genus Phylloscopus . It was formerly regarded as the eastern subspecies of a wider "Bonelli's warbler" species, but as a result of modern taxonomic developments, this species is now usually considered to be two species:...

base stats

  • NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 235iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 235 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Christian Ludwig Brehm in 1855 (171 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler
Nederlands
Balkanbergfluiter
scientific name
Phylloscopus orientalis
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Phylloscopidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
1
sightings in Europe
51
sightings worldwide
235
GBIF records in NL
354
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1855 by Christian Ludwig Brehm

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Phylloscopidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 144923, Wikidata Q805062, GBIF 4408827, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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