#0697 · 🐦 birds

Whinchat

🇳🇱 Paapje ·Saxicola rubetra

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra ) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa. At one time considered to be in the thrush family, Turdidae, it is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. Both sexes have a strong supercilium, brownish upper parts mottled darker, a pale throat and breast, a pale buff to whitish belly, and a blackish tail with white bases to the outer tail...

base stats

NL sightings 163iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 35,588iNaturalist observations
weight 2.1 gadult, up to
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).