#0997 · 🐦 birds
White-winged Crossbill
🇳🇱 Witbandkruisbek ·Loxia leucoptera
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © edporopat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Philippe Hénault · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Aaron Maizlish · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Дмитрий Осипов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Laura Gooch · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © edporopat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Howard Patterson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
The two-barred crossbill ( Loxia leucoptera ), known as the white-winged crossbill in North America, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has two subspecies, white-winged crossbill Loxia leucoptera leucoptera in North America, and two-barred crossbill Loxia leucoptera bifasciata in NE Europe and N Asia.
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
- Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 6,180 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-winged Crossbill
- Nederlands
- Witbandkruisbek
- scientific name
- Loxia leucoptera
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Fringillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 237
- sightings worldwide
- 6,180
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,621
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Fringillidae
#0553 📷 8Common Chaffinch
🇳🇱 Vink
Fringilla coelebs
LC 👀 2.8k in NL
#0585 📷 10European Goldfinch
🇳🇱 Putter
Carduelis carduelis
LC 👀 1.2k in NL
#0597 📷 10Eurasian Linnet
🇳🇱 Kneu
Linaria cannabina
LC 👀 945 in NL
#0614 📷 10European Greenfinch
🇳🇱 Groenling
Chloris chloris
LC 👀 617 in NL
#0651 📷 10Hawfinch
🇳🇱 Appelvink
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
LC 👀 293 in NL
#0668 📷 7Brambling
🇳🇱 Keep
Fringilla montifringilla
LC 👀 230 in NL
#0674 📷 7Eurasian Siskin
🇳🇱 Sijs
Spinus spinus
LC 👀 215 in NL
#0679 📷 10Eurasian Bullfinch
🇳🇱 Goudvink
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
LC 👀 210 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 10423, Wikidata Q331190, GBIF 8144830, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.