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#1391 · 🐦 birds

Townsend's Warbler

🇳🇱 Townsends Zanger ·Setophaga townsendi

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe
Townsend's Warbler, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Braxton L. · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Townsend's warbler ( Setophaga townsendi ) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 26,041iNaturalist 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.
  • 26,041 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by John Kirk Townsend in 1837 (189 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Townsend's Warbler
Nederlands
Townsends Zanger
scientific name
Setophaga townsendi
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Parulidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
26,041
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1837 by John Kirk Townsend

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Parulidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 145255, Wikidata Q512543, GBIF 6092651, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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