#1110 · 🐦 birds
Blackburnian Warbler
🇳🇱 Oranjekeelzanger ·Setophaga fusca
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- 2. © Tom Benson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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what is it?
The Blackburnian warbler ( Setophaga fusca ) is a small New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America, from southern Canada, westwards to the southern Canadian Prairies, the Great Lakes region and New England, to North Carolina.
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.
- 20,530 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 10 g.
- Scientifically named by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Nederlands
- Oranjekeelzanger
- scientific name
- Setophaga fusca
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Parulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4
- sightings worldwide
- 20,530
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 10.2 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Parulidae
#1024 📷 9Yellow-rumped Warbler
🇳🇱 Mirtezanger
Setophaga coronata
LC 🌍 244.9k seen
#1046 📷 7Common Yellowthroat
🇳🇱 Gewone Maskerzanger
Geothlypis trichas
LC 🌍 87.3k seen
#1047 📷 9Northern Yellow Warbler
🇳🇱 Gele Zanger
Setophaga aestiva
🌍 87.2k seen
#1302 📷 10Palm Warbler
🇳🇱 Palmzanger
Setophaga palmarum
LC 🌍 58.1k seen
#1062 📷 10American Redstart
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Roodstaart
Setophaga ruticilla
LC 🌍 57.4k seen
#1304 📷 8Orange-crowned Warbler
🇳🇱 Groene Zanger
Leiothlypis celata
LC 🌍 57.3k seen
#1065 📷 7Black-and-white Warbler
🇳🇱 Bonte Zanger
Mniotilta varia
LC 🌍 52.9k seen
#1324 📷 8Wilson's Warbler
🇳🇱 Wilsons Zanger
Cardellina pusilla
LC 🌍 42.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 145237, Wikidata Q27075919, GBIF 6093199, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.