#1276 · 🐦 birds

Black Phoebe

🇳🇱 Zwarte Phoebe ·Sayornis nigricans

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Jack Wolf · CC BY-ND 4.0
2. © Len Blumin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Channel City Camera Club · CC BY 4.0
4. © Don Faulkner · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © julian londono · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Jamie Chavez · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Nick Chill · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Derek Keats · CC BY 4.0
9. © Channel City Camera Club · CC BY 4.0
10. © Alan D. Wilson · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The black phoebe ( Sayornis nigricans ) is a passerine bird in the tyrant-flycatcher family. It breeds from southwest Oregon and California south through Central and South America. It occurs year-round throughout most of its range and migrates less than the other birds in its genus, though its northern populations are partially migratory. Six subspecies are commonly recognized, although two are occasionally combined as a separate species, the white-winged phoebe.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 104,182iNaturalist 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.
104,182 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1827 (199 years ago).