#1305 · 🐦 birds

Bewick's Wren

🇳🇱 Bewicks Winterkoning ·Thryomanes bewickii

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The Bewick's wren ( Thryomanes bewickii ) is a wren native to North America. 5 in) long, it is grey-brown above, white below, with a long white eyebrow. While similar in appearance to the Carolina wren, it has a long tail that is tipped in white. The song is loud and melodious, much like the song of other wrens. It lives in thickets, brush piles and hedgerows, open woodlands and scrubby areas, often near streams. It...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 54,511iNaturalist 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.
54,511 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John James Audubon in 1827 (199 years ago).