#1308 · 🐦 birds
Bushtit
🇳🇱 Struikmees ·Psaltriparus minimus
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what is it?
The American bushtit ( Psaltriparus minimus ) is the only species in the family Aegithalidae found in the New World, and the only member of the genus Psaltriparus . In North America, it is referred to simply as "bushtit".
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.
- 52,751 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Kirk Townsend in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bushtit
- Nederlands
- Struikmees
- scientific name
- Psaltriparus minimus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Aegithalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 52,751
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 0.7 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by John Kirk Townsend
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Aegithalidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7266, Wikidata Q2746307, GBIF 2494988, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.