#1214 · 🐦 birds
Fire-fronted Serin
🇳🇱 Roodvoorhoofdkanarie ·Serinus pusillus
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what is it?
The red-fronted serin or fire-fronted serin ( Serinus pusillus ) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It prefers high mountain regions and is 11–12 cm long.
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.
- 1,205 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 1 g.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811 (215 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Fire-fronted Serin
- Nederlands
- Roodvoorhoofdkanarie
- scientific name
- Serinus pusillus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Fringillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 341
- sightings worldwide
- 1,205
- GBIF records in NL
- 19
- weight
- 1.4 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1811 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Fringillidae
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LC 👀 2.8k in NL
#0585 📷 10European Goldfinch
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Carduelis carduelis
LC 👀 1.2k in NL
#0597 📷 10Eurasian Linnet
🇳🇱 Kneu
Linaria cannabina
LC 👀 945 in NL
#0614 📷 10European Greenfinch
🇳🇱 Groenling
Chloris chloris
LC 👀 617 in NL
#0651 📷 10Hawfinch
🇳🇱 Appelvink
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
LC 👀 293 in NL
#0668 📷 7Brambling
🇳🇱 Keep
Fringilla montifringilla
LC 👀 230 in NL
#0674 📷 7Eurasian Siskin
🇳🇱 Sijs
Spinus spinus
LC 👀 215 in NL
#0679 📷 10Eurasian Bullfinch
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LC 👀 210 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9238, Wikidata Q621833, GBIF 2494194, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.