#1273 · 🐦 birds

Lesser Goldfinch

🇳🇱 Witbandsijs ·Spinus psaltria

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © joecf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Angela Brierly · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © David J Barton · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © chestersimpson · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Daniel Alexander Carrillo Mtz · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Live Oak Canyon, Redlands, CA, USA:© guyincognito · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA:© Alexis Babayan · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, Mountain Center, CA, US:© dalemeister · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Uvalde County, TX, USA:© Egidio · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The lesser goldfinch ( Spinus psaltria ) is a very small songbird of the Americas. Together with its relatives the American goldfinch and Lawrence's goldfinch, it forms the American goldfinches clade in the genus Spinus sensu stricto .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 115,866iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
115,866 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1822 (204 years ago).