#0651 · 🐦 birds
Hawfinch
🇳🇱 Appelvink ·Coccothraustes coccothraustes
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what is it?
The hawfinch ( Coccothraustes coccothraustes ) is a passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. Its closest living relatives are the evening grosbeak ( Hesperiphona vespertinus ) from North America and the hooded grosbeak ( Hesperiphona abeillei ) from Central America especially Mexico.
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 293 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 33,895 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hawfinch
- Nederlands
- Appelvink
- scientific name
- Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Fringillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 293
- sightings in Europe
- 21,947
- sightings worldwide
- 33,895
- GBIF records in NL
- 109,128
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Fringillidae
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LC 👀 2.8k in NL
#0585 📷 10European Goldfinch
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Carduelis carduelis
LC 👀 1.2k in NL
#0597 📷 10Eurasian Linnet
🇳🇱 Kneu
Linaria cannabina
LC 👀 945 in NL
#0614 📷 10European Greenfinch
🇳🇱 Groenling
Chloris chloris
LC 👀 617 in NL
#0668 📷 7Brambling
🇳🇱 Keep
Fringilla montifringilla
LC 👀 230 in NL
#0674 📷 7Eurasian Siskin
🇳🇱 Sijs
Spinus spinus
LC 👀 215 in NL
#0679 📷 10Eurasian Bullfinch
🇳🇱 Goudvink
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
LC 👀 210 in NL
#0704 📷 10Redpoll
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Acanthis flammea
LC 👀 152 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9801, Wikidata Q174088, GBIF 2494329, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.