#1127 · 🐦 birds

Pine Grosbeak

🇳🇱 Haakbek ·Pinicola enucleator

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The pine grosbeak ( Pinicola enucleator ) is a large member of the true finch family, Fringillidae. It is found in coniferous woods across Alaska, the western mountains of the United States, Canada, and in subarctic Fennoscandia and Siberia. The species is a frugivore, especially in winter, favoring small fruits, such as rowans (mountain-ashes in the New World). With fruit-crop abundance varying from year to year, pine grosbeak is one of many subarctic-resident bird species that exhibit irruptive...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,225iNaturalist 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.
15,225 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).