#1459 · 🐦 birds

Rufous-bellied Thrush

🇳🇱 Roodbuiklijster ·Turdus rufiventris

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The rufous-bellied thrush ( Turdus rufiventris ) is a songbird of the thrush family (Turdidae). It occurs in most of east and southeast Brazil from Maranhão south to Rio Grande do Sul states, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and central regions of Argentina.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,292iNaturalist observations
weight 5.8 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.
18,292 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 6 g.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818 (208 years ago).