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Eurasian Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebs · Family Fringillidae
Fringilla coelebs
Family Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 10,357,970
- Countries and territories with records
- 99
About this species
This species has 10,357,970 occurrence records from 99 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (17.3%), Sweden (12.7%), the Netherlands (10.9%), the United Kingdom (9.1%) and Spain (7.9%); together they account for 57.8% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Fringilla coelebs combines the genus name Fringilla with the species epithet coelebs. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Fringilla; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Fringilla montifringilla, Fringilla moreletti and Fringilla spodiogenys.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 22.6 times the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.