#1314 · 🐦 birds
Pine Siskin
🇳🇱 Dennensijs ·Spinus pinus
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what is it?
The pine siskin ( Spinus pinus ) is a North American bird in the finch family. It is a migratory bird with an extremely sporadic winter range.
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.
- 46,191 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Alexander Wilson in 1810 (216 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pine Siskin
- Nederlands
- Dennensijs
- scientific name
- Spinus pinus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Fringillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 46,191
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1810 by Alexander Wilson
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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#0668 📷 7Brambling
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#0674 📷 7Eurasian Siskin
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 145304, Wikidata Q26847063, GBIF 5231635, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.