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#0886 · 🐦 birds

Pine Bunting

🇳🇱 Witkopgors ·Emberiza leucocephalos

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Pine Bunting, photo 1 of 8
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what is it?

The pine bunting ( Emberiza leucocephalos ) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group most modern authors now separate from the finches, Fringillidae. It lives in Asia.

base stats

  • NL sightings 7iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,793iNaturalist observations
  • 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

  • Spotted 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 2,793 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin in 1771 (255 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Pine Bunting
Nederlands
Witkopgors
scientific name
Emberiza leucocephalos
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Emberizidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
7
sightings in Europe
125
sightings worldwide
2,793
GBIF records in NL
3,106
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1771 by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Emberizidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9210, Wikidata Q221423, GBIF 2491472, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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