#0592 · 🐦 birds

Eurasian Wren

🇳🇱 Winterkoning ·Troglodytes troglodytes

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The Eurasian wren ( Troglodytes troglodytes ) is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa (Maghreb). In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren . It was once lumped with Troglodytes hiemalis of eastern North America and Troglodytes pacificus of western North America as the winter wren. The Eurasian wren occurs in Europe, a belt of Asia from northern Iran and Afghanistan across to Japan....

base stats

NL sightings 999iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 61,396iNaturalist 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).