#1116 · 🐦 birds

Black-throated Blue Warbler

🇳🇱 Blauwe Zwartkeelzanger ·Setophaga caerulescens

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Edward Perry IV · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Donahue · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © NHMLA Community Science Program · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © roy pilcher · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Fyn Kynd · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Ryan Douglas · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Robert Webster · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The black-throated blue warbler ( Setophaga caerulescens ) is a small passerine bird of the New World warbler family. Its breeding ranges are located in the interior of deciduous and mixed coniferous forests in eastern North America. Over the cooler months, it migrates to islands in the Caribbean and Central America. It is very rarely found in western Europe, where it is considered to be a non-indigenous species. The black-throated blue warbler is sexually dimorphic; the adult male...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,243iNaturalist observations
weight 1.5 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
18,243 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 1 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).