#1236 · 🐦 birds

Cretzschmar's Bunting

🇳🇱 Bruinkeelortolaan ·Emberiza caesia

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. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. Dana, Jordan:© Thibaud Aronson · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Yakaköy, HC29+XX, 48850 Seydikemer/Muğla, Türkiye:© Victor Heng · CC BY 4.0
5. Marmaris/Muğla, Türkei:© wingwatcher48 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Манавгат/Анталия, Турция:© Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0
7. Prastio 4601, Cyprus:© Gaell Mainguy · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Ohud, Amman, Jordan:© markus lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Ακρωτήρι, Κύπρος:© loizosloizou96 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Sigri, Lesbos, Griechenland:© jost_holtzmann · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Cretzschmar's bunting ( Emberiza caesia ) 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 476iNaturalist observations
weight 2.3 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.
476 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 2 g.
Scientifically named by Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar in 1827 (199 years ago).