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SpeciesPasseriformesFringillidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Linnaeus, 1758)

The Eurasian bullfinch or common bullfinch is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. In Anglophone Europe it is known simply as the bullfinch, as it is the original bird to bear the name bullfinch.

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Also called
bullfinch
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
18 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Bullfinch

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian Bullfinch yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊclassAves
  4. β€ΊorderPasseriformes
  5. β€ΊfamilyFringillidae
  6. β€ΊgenusPyrrhula
  7. β€ΊspeciesPyrrhula pyrrhula
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds Β· Aves
  3. orderPerching birds Β· Passeriformes
  4. genusPyrrhula
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds Β· Aves
  10. orderPerching birds Β· Passeriformes
  11. genusPyrrhula
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 European Goldfinch β€” last shared an ancestor β‰ˆ 18 million years ago.
In other languages
goudvink (nl), domherre (sv), Gimpel (de), ΡΠ½Π΅Π³ΠΈΡ€ΡŒ (ru), Pyrrhula pyrrhula (it), pinsΓ  borroner (ca) … and 26 more languages
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