#1061 · 🐦 birds

Red-breasted Nuthatch

🇳🇱 Canadese Boomklever ·Sitta canadensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The red-breasted nuthatch ( Sitta canadensis ) is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal. It breeds in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States. Though often a permanent resident, it regularly irrupts further south...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 57,605iNaturalist observations
weight 1.2 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.
57,605 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 1 g.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).