#1323 · 🐦 birds

Purple Finch

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Roodmus ·Haemorhous purpureus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Weston Barker · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ed Sharron · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Ed Hass · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © rebelgirl73 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Lori A Owenby · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wisconsin, US:© Dani Alba · CC BY 4.0
8. Forest Grove, OR 97116, USA:© Patricia · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Orangevale, CA, USA:© abcdefgewing · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

The purple finch ( Haemorhous purpureus ) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 42,147iNaturalist observations
weight 2.3 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
42,147 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 2 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).