Fringillidae

Coccothraustes coccothraustes Photo by Eduardo Balogh (Trek Nature) Common name:hawfinch (en); bico-grossudo (pt); gros-bec casse-noyaux (fr); picogordo común (es); kernbeißer (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily FringillidaeRange:This species is found throughout most of Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula north to Britain and southern Scandinavia and east into Turkey and Russia, along the Caucasus and southern Russia into northern Kazakhstan,…

Serinus canaria (Photo from Flickr) Common name:island canary (en); canário-da-terra (pt); serin des Canaries (fr); canario silvestre (es); kanarengirlitz (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily FringillidaeRange:This species is native of the north-eastern Atlantic archipelagos of Madeira, Azores and the Canary islands. It has also been introduced to Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands, and the domestic form is…

Mycerobas carnipes Photo by Isabekov Askar (Birds of Kazakhstan) Common name:white-winged grosbeak (en); bico-grossudo-d’asa-branca (pt); gros-bec à ailes blaches (fr); picogordo aliblanco (es); wacholderkernbeißer (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily FringillidaeRange:This species is found in central Asia, from northern Iran, through Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, and into south-eastern Kazakhstan, western and central China, Nepal and northernmost India and Myanmar.Size:Thee birds…

Serinus mozambicus Photo by Myron Tay (Oriental Bird Images) Common name:yellow-fronted canary (en); canário-de-testa-amarela (pt); serin du Mozambique (fr); canario de Mozambique (es); Mosambikgirlitz (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily FringillidaeRange:This species is native from sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania to Ethiopia and south to Angola, Botswana, Mozambique and eastern South Africa. They are popular cage birds and have…