#0919 · 🐦 birds

Siberian Stonechat

🇳🇱 Aziatische Roodborsttapuit ·Saxicola maurus

🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Константин Селивёрстов · CC BY 4.0
2. © Afzal Hossain Khan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Anil Kumar Verma · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Binish Balakrishnan · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ani Sarkisyan · CC BY 4.0
6. Новосибирский р-н, Новосибирская обл., Россия:© Natalya Andreyenkova · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Большой Исток, Свердловская обл., Россия:© Игорь Васильевич Фадеев · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Бешеное вдхр., Респ. Дагестан, Россия, 368820:© Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Karaganda, 100000, Казахстан:© Igor Malyshkin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. Moskva, RU:© Natalia Sidorova · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat ( Saxicola maurus ) is a recently validated species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae). Like the other thrush-like flycatchers, it was often placed in the Turdidae in the past. It breeds in temperate Asia and easternmost Europe and winters in the Old World tropics.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,835iNaturalist observations

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).