📸 PhotoPhoto: Zinogre (zinogre) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Chinese Grosbeak
Eophona migratoria (Chinese Grosbeak · コイカル)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its body length of 17 cm is similar to one unsharpened pencil (about 17.5 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 According to the National List of Species of Korea, because it is a common summer visitor nationwide that also nests in park trees, it can be seen in city parks during summer.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Chinese grosbeak is a common summer visitor that nests in tall trees in parks and forests. It is distributed across China, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its body length is 17 cm, and its pale orange bill is tipped with black. Males have a glossy black head, cheeks, and wings with white wingtips and primary coverts, and a pale yellowish breast and belly.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It builds a bowl-shaped nest on a fairly low tree branch and lays 3–5 pale blue eggs spotted with dark brown. It mainly eats seeds and fruits of trees and shrubs and also takes insects.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
The National List of Species of Korea records it as a common summer visitor observed nationwide.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2024) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22720684/264319911
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 264319911
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000002210 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000002210
- • wikidata.org — Q594049
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Eophona migratoria from iNaturalist photo 475507527.jpg
- • species.nibr.go.kr — mainHome.do
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Chloris chloris)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.