#1249 · 🐦 birds

Caucasian Snowcock

🇳🇱 Kaukasisch Berghoen ·Tetraogallus caucasicus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. Karachay-Cherkess, RU:© Геннадий · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. Russia:© Pavel Shukov · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. Урупский р-н, Карачаево-Черкесская Республика, Россия:© Mikhail Protasov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Karachay-Cherkess, RU:© Геннадий · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Эльбрусский р-н, Кабардино-Балкарская Респ., Россия:© Ekaterina Romanova · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Респ. Дагестан, Россия, 368754:© mariia_skopina · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Зеленчукский р-н, Карачаево-Черкесская Республика, Россия:© Алексей Сизов · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Mestia, GE-SZ, GE:© Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Кусары, Азербайджан:© Илья Уколов · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Урупский р-н, Карачаево-Черкесская Республика, Россия:© andrey_smetanin · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Caucasian snowcock ( Tetraogallus caucasicus ) is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 159iNaturalist 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.
159 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811 (215 years ago).