---
title: "Eurasian Bullfinch"
description: "Pyrrhula pyrrhula — Uccelli. The Eurasian bullfinch or common bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/eurasian-bullfinch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Eurasian Bullfinch

> Pyrrhula pyrrhula — Uccelli. The Eurasian bullfinch or common bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae.

- Scientific name: *Pyrrhula pyrrhula*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 85530
- Wikidata: [Q25382](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25382)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9462](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9462)

## Names

- en: Eurasian Bullfinch
- de: Gimpel
- es: Camachuelo común
- fr: Bouvreuil pivoine
- nl: Goudvink
- pt: Dom-fafe
- pl: Gil zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

RU (58525), GB (4669), DE (3743), DK (1584), FI (1527), AT (1321), UA (917), NO (877), FR (839), SE (806), PL (755), CZ (665)

## Summary

The Eurasian bullfinch or common bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. In Anglophone Europe it is known simply as the bullfinch (English regional, Shropshire: plum bird), as it is the original bird to bear the name bullfinch.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_bullfinch

## Photo

![Eurasian Bullfinch](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eurasian-bullfinch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Istvan Sipos · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330562004

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/eurasian-bullfinch?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).