#1338 · 🐦 birds

Painted Bunting

🇳🇱 Purpergors ·Passerina ciris

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The painted bunting ( Passerina ciris ) is a species of bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae, that is native to North America. The bright plumage of the male only comes in the second year of life; in the first year they can only be distinguished from the female by close inspection.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 38,180iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
38,180 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).