#1221 · 🐦 birds

Red-headed Bunting

🇳🇱 Bruinkopgors ·Emberiza bruniceps

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Dr. Raju Kasambe · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Vijay Vanaparthy · CC BY 4.0
3. © Shahrzad Fattahi · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky) · CC BY 4.0
5. © Илья Сухов · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Sharmabc · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Харабалинский р-н, Астраханская обл., Россия:© Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Досанг, Астраханская обл., Россия, 416153:© Геннадий · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Красноярский р-н, Астраханская обл., Россия:© Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. Егорьевский р-н, Алтайский край, Россия:© Александр Кочетков · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-headed bunting ( Emberiza bruniceps ) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,060iNaturalist observations
weight 24 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.
1,060 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 24 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1841 (185 years ago).