#1424 · 🐦 birds
Verdin
🇳🇱 Geelkopmees ·Auriparus flaviceps
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what is it?
The verdin ( Auriparus flaviceps ) is a species of penduline tit. It is the only species in the genus Auriparus and the only species in the family to be found in the New World.
base stats
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.
- 21,696 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1850 (176 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Verdin
- Nederlands
- Geelkopmees
- scientific name
- Auriparus flaviceps
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Remizidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 21,696
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1850 by Carl Jakob Sundevall
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Remizidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7603, Wikidata Q1300274, GBIF 2487397, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.