#0604 · 🐦 birds

Eurasian Blackcap

🇳🇱 Zwartkop ·Sylvia atricapilla

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The Eurasian blackcap ( Sylvia atricapilla ) usually known simply as the blackcap , is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given...

base stats

NL sightings 781iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 74,270iNaturalist observations
weight 18.1 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).