#1434 · 🐦 birds
Vesper Sparrow
🇳🇱 Avondgors ·Pooecetes gramineus
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what is it?
The vesper sparrow ( Pooecetes gramineus ) is a medium-sized American sparrow. It is the only member of the genus Pooecetes .
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 20,846 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Vesper Sparrow
- Nederlands
- Avondgors
- scientific name
- Pooecetes gramineus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Passerellidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 20,846
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 10168, Wikidata Q776555, GBIF 2491728, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.