#0976 · 🐦 birds
Siberian Accentor
🇳🇱 Bergheggenmus ·Prunella montanella
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Яков Любченко · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Александр Кочетков · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Sergey_Cher · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Rimma Gerasimenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Михаил Новичков · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © guyincognito · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Siberian accentor ( Prunella montanella ) is a small passerine bird that breeds in northern Russia from the Ural Mountains eastwards across Siberia. It is migratory, wintering in Korea and eastern China, with rare occurrences in western Europe and northwestern North America. Its typical breeding habitat is subarctic deciduous forests and open coniferous woodland, often close to water, although it also occurs in mountains and spruce taiga. It frequents bushes and shrubs in winter, often near streams,...
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 459 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776 (250 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Siberian Accentor
- Nederlands
- Bergheggenmus
- scientific name
- Prunella montanella
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Prunellidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 40
- sightings worldwide
- 459
- GBIF records in NL
- 441
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Prunellidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 13983, Wikidata Q163049, GBIF 5231759, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.