#1111 · 🐦 birds

Cape May Warbler

🇳🇱 Tijgerzanger ·Setophaga tigrina

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Zane Shantz · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © jtajax · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Heather A. Wise · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Carlo · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Gerardo Marrón · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Cape May warbler ( Setophaga tigrina ) is a species of New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America. Its breeding range spans all but the westernmost parts of southern Canada, the Great Lakes region, and New England. It is migratory, wintering in the West Indies. This species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, with two records in Britain as of October 2013. The English name refers to Cape May, New Jersey, where George...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,208iNaturalist observations
weight 10.7 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.
20,208 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 11 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).