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#1416 · 🐦 birds

Eastern Meadowlark

🇳🇱 Witkaakweidespreeuw ·Sturnella magna

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe
Eastern Meadowlark, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 22,554iNaturalist observations
  • threat NTnear threatened

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.
  • 22,554 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Eastern Meadowlark
Nederlands
Witkaakweidespreeuw
scientific name
Sturnella magna
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Icteridae
IUCN Red List
NT · near threatened
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
22,554
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

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

relatives· Icteridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9528, Wikidata Q1589550, GBIF 2484254, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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