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#0798 · 🐦 birds

Little Bunting

🇳🇱 Dwerggors ·Emberiza pusilla

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Little Bunting, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The little bunting ( Emberiza pusilla ) is a passerine bird belonging to the bunting and American sparrow family (Emberizidae), a group most modern authors separate from the true finches (Fringillidae).

base stats

  • NL sightings 25iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,565iNaturalist observations
  • weight 15.4 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

  • Spotted 25 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 4,565 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Weighs only about 15 g.
  • Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776 (250 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Little Bunting
Nederlands
Dwerggors
scientific name
Emberiza pusilla
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Emberizidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
25
sightings in Europe
613
sightings worldwide
4,565
GBIF records in NL
8,615
weight
15.4 g
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1776 by Peter Simon Pallas

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

relatives· Emberizidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9197, Wikidata Q216855, GBIF 2491544, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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