#0874 · 🐦 birds

Rustic Bunting

🇳🇱 Bosgors ·Emberiza rustica

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

what is it?

The rustic bunting ( Emberiza rustica ) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz , a bunting. The specific rustica is Latin for "rustic, simple".

base stats

NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,680iNaturalist observations
weight 2.5 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
4,680 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 2 g.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776 (250 years ago).

fact sheet

English: Rustic Bunting
Nederlands: Bosgors
scientific name: Emberiza rustica
class: Aves
order: Passeriformes
family: Emberizidae
IUCN Red List: NT · near threatened
sightings in NL: 8
sightings in Europe: 760
sightings worldwide: 4,680
GBIF records in NL: 1,928
weight: 2.5 g
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas

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

relatives· Emberizidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9188, Wikidata Q286809, GBIF 2491582, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.