White-crowned Sparrow

base stats

• NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
• worldwide 159,237iNaturalist observations
• weight 30.7 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.
• 🌍159,237 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
• 🪶Weighs only about 31 g.
• 📜Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1772 (254 years ago).

fact sheet

English

White-crowned Sparrow

Nederlands

Witkruingors

scientific name

Zonotrichia leucophrys

class

Aves

order

Passeriformes

family

Passerellidae

IUCN Red List

LC · least concern

sightings in NL

0

sightings in Europe

6

sightings worldwide

159,237

GBIF records in NL

3

weight

30.7 g

length

—

lifespan

—

named

1772 by Johann Reinhold Forster

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.