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#0828 · 🐦 birds

Black-faced Bunting

🇳🇱 Maskergors ·Emberiza spodocephala

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Black-faced Bunting, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The black-faced bunting ( Emberiza spodocephala ) 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 15iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 5,849iNaturalist 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 15 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 5,849 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776 (250 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Black-faced Bunting
Nederlands
Maskergors
scientific name
Emberiza spodocephala
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Emberizidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
15
sightings in Europe
53
sightings worldwide
5,849
GBIF records in NL
1,617
weight
—
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 9204, Wikidata Q1190674, GBIF 2491522, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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