#1089 · 🐦 birds

Scarlet Tanager

🇳🇱 Zwartvleugeltangare ·Piranga olivacea

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The scarlet tanager ( Piranga olivacea ) is a medium-sized American songbird. Until recently placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of its genus are now classified as belonging to the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species' plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family, although the Piranga species lacks the thick conical bill (well suited to seed and insect eating) that many cardinals possess.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 30,608iNaturalist 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.
30,608 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).