#0771 · 🐦 birds

Red Crossbill

🇳🇱 Kruisbek ·Loxia curvirostra

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Пакалнис Дэниел · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Bob Lalonde · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jason Headley · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Пакалнис Дэниел · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Abby Sesselberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Chris Sichko · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © S.Wolf · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Sergey Pisarevskiy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Carter Strope · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. © jmarcinik · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red crossbill ( Loxia curvirostra ) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, also known as the common crossbill in Eurasia. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other fruits.

base stats

NL sightings 37iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 30,442iNaturalist observations
weight 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).