#1458 · 🐦 birds
Evening Grosbeak
🇳🇱 Avonddikbek ·Hesperiphona vespertina
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what is it?
The evening grosbeak ( Hesperiphona vespertina ) is a passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae found in North America.
base stats
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.
- 18,471 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 59 g.
- Scientifically named by William Cooper in 1825 (201 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Evening Grosbeak
- Nederlands
- Avonddikbek
- scientific name
- Hesperiphona vespertina
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Fringillidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 18,471
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 59 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by William Cooper
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1650411, Wikidata Q25167830, GBIF 2494324, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.