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#0692 · 🐦 birds

Garden Warbler

🇳🇱 Tuinfluiter ·Sylvia borin

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Garden Warbler, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © STŁ · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The garden warbler ( Sylvia borin ) is a common and widespread small bird that breeds in most of Europe and in western Asia. It is a plain, long-winged and long-tailed typical warbler with brown upperparts and dull white underparts; the sexes are similar and juveniles resemble the adults. Its two subspecies differ only slightly and interbreed where their ranges overlap. Due to its lack of distinguishing features, this species can be confused with a number of other...

base stats

  • NL sightings 174iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 10,736iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 174 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 10,736 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 (243 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Garden Warbler
Nederlands
Tuinfluiter
scientific name
Sylvia borin
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Sylviidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
174
sightings in Europe
6,930
sightings worldwide
10,736
GBIF records in NL
224,631
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1783 by Pieter Boddaert

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

relatives· Sylviidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 15302, Wikidata Q202478, GBIF 2492942, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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