#0840 · 🐦 birds
Lapland Longspur
🇳🇱 IJsgors ·Calcarius lapponicus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jeffrey H. Skevington · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Cameron Eckert · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © David McCorquodale · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Lapland longspur ( Calcarius lapponicus ), also known as the Lapland bunting , is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches).
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
- Spotted 12 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,034 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lapland Longspur
- Nederlands
- IJsgors
- scientific name
- Calcarius lapponicus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Calcariidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 12
- sightings in Europe
- 853
- sightings worldwide
- 8,034
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,017
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Calcariidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 116840, Wikidata Q208703, GBIF 2491678, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.