#1342 · 🐦 birds

Black-headed Grosbeak

🇳🇱 Zwartkopbisschop ·Pheucticus melanocephalus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The black-headed grosbeak ( Pheucticus melanocephalus ) is a medium-sized, seed-eating bird in the same family as the northern cardinal, the Cardinalidae. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the rose-breasted grosbeak ( P. ludovicianus ) with which it hybridizes on the American Great Plains.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 36,627iNaturalist observations
weight 47 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.
36,627 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 47 g.
Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1827 (199 years ago).