#1378 · 🐦 birds

Clay-colored Thrush

🇳🇱 Grays Lijster ·Turdus grayi

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Sebastián Restrepo Calle · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Irene · CC0
3. © José Humberto Castañón González · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Irene · CC0
5. © EDMILSON FERNANDO JARQUIN LOPEZ · CC BY 4.0
6. © Irene · CC0
7. © Christopher Lindsey · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Christopher Lindsey · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The clay-colored thrush ( Turdus grayi ) is a common Middle American bird of the thrush family (Turdidae). It is the national bird of Costa Rica, where it is well known as the yigüirro . Other common names include clay-colored robin .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,559iNaturalist observations
weight 7.1 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
27,559 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 7 g.
Scientifically named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1838 (188 years ago).