#1380 · 🐦 birds

Field Sparrow

🇳🇱 Veldgors ·Spizella pusilla

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The field sparrow ( Spizella pusilla ) is a small New World sparrow in the family Emberizidae. 4 oz). The head is grey with a rust-coloured crown, white eye-ring and pink bill. The upper parts are brown streaked with black and buff, the breast is buff, the belly is white and the tail is forked. There are two different colour morphs, one being greyer and the other more rufous.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,409iNaturalist observations
weight 1.7 gadult, up to
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.
27,409 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 2 g.
Scientifically named by Alexander Wilson in 1810 (216 years ago).