#1250 · 🐦 birds

Azores Bullfinch

🇳🇱 Azorengoudvink ·Pyrrhula murina

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The Azores bullfinch ( Pyrrhula murina ), also known as the São Miguel bullfinch , or locally in Portuguese as the Priolo , is an endangered passerine bird in the true finch family. It is endemic to São Miguel Island, in the Azores archipelago of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 144iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

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.
144 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Frederick DuCane Godman in 1866 (160 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.