#1062 · 🐦 birds
American Redstart
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Roodstaart ·Setophaga ruticilla
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what is it?
The American redstart ( Setophaga ruticilla ) is a New World warbler. It is unrelated to the Old World redstarts.
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.
- 57,433 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 1 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Redstart
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Roodstaart
- scientific name
- Setophaga ruticilla
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Parulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 8
- sightings worldwide
- 57,433
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 1.3 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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
#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
#1340 📷 10Pine Warbler
🇳🇱 Dennenzanger
Setophaga pinus
LC 🌍 37.3k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 10247, Wikidata Q922772, GBIF 2489985, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.