#1139 · 🐦 birds
Rock Bunting
🇳🇱 Grijze Gors ·Emberiza cia
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what is it?
The rock bunting ( Emberiza cia ) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 9,052 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 23 g.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Rock Bunting
- Nederlands
- Grijze Gors
- scientific name
- Emberiza cia
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Emberizidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,901
- sightings worldwide
- 9,052
- GBIF records in NL
- 22
- weight
- 23 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Emberizidae
#0587 📷 8Reed Bunting
🇳🇱 Rietgors
Emberiza schoeniclus
LC 👀 1.2k in NL
#0652 📷 10Yellowhammer
🇳🇱 Geelgors
Emberiza citrinella
LC 👀 285 in NL
#0798 📷 10Little Bunting
🇳🇱 Dwerggors
Emberiza pusilla
LC 👀 25 in NL
#0828 📷 10Black-faced Bunting
🇳🇱 Maskergors
Emberiza spodocephala
LC 👀 15 in NL
#0860 📷 10Corn Bunting
🇳🇱 Grauwe Gors
Emberiza calandra
LC 👀 9 in NL
#0874 📷 9Rustic Bunting
🇳🇱 Bosgors
Emberiza rustica
NT 👀 8 in NL
#0886 📷 8Pine Bunting
🇳🇱 Witkopgors
Emberiza leucocephalos
LC 👀 7 in NL
#0895 📷 10Yellow-browed Bunting
🇳🇱 Geelbrauwgors
Emberiza chrysophrys
LC 👀 6 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9193, Wikidata Q205491, GBIF 2491498, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.