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Eurasian siskin

Spinus spinus · Family Fringillidae

Spinus spinus

Family Fringillidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
GBIF occurrence records
3,198,399
Countries and territories with records
95
Eurasian siskin
Sławek Staszczuk (photoss [AT] hotmail.co.uk) · Carduelis spinus male.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sławek Staszczuk (photoss [AT] hotmail.co.uk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Benoît Van Hecke · Spinus_spinus_-_Eurasian_Siskin_XC539301.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Benoît Van Hecke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 3,198,399 occurrence records from 95 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (30.5%), Finland (12.8%), Norway (11.5%), Denmark (6.6%) and the United Kingdom (6.5%); together they account for 67.9% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.96% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Spinus spinus combines the genus name Spinus with the species epithet spinus. The Warbla app catalog lists 20 species of the genus Spinus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Spinus tristis, Spinus psaltria and Spinus pinus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 7 times the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Fringillidae

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