#1208 · 🐦 birds

Trumpeter Finch

🇳🇱 Woestijnvink ·Bucanetes githagineus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Markus Lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. г. Владикавказ, Респ. Северная Осетия-Алания, Россия:© dssh · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Almería, España:© muchoslopez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 35570 El Golfo, Las Palmas, Spain:© Codrin Bucur · CC BY 4.0
7. Punta de Jacomar, Las Palmas, España:© Amanhuy Duque y Andrea Castro · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Almería, España:© muchoslopez · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 13460 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France:© Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Office No# New Mobile Market 26, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan:© Munawar Baloch · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The trumpeter finch ( Bucanetes githagineus ) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,370iNaturalist 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.
1,370 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 (203 years ago).