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Grosbeak
is the name given to several species of seed-eating passerine
bird with large bills, in the finch and cardinal families.
The following is a list of grosbeak species - note that
the groups of species are not each other's closest relatives
- they share the name grosbeak purely because of morphological
similarity. The finch family, Fringillidae contains the
following 11 extant species (plus two species of Grosbeak
Canary): The São Tomé Grosbeak, Neospiza
concolor, a critically endangered restricted-range endemic
found only in forests on the island of São Tomé
off the West African coast, believed extinct until rediscovered
in 1996 The Golden-winged Grosbeak, Rynchostruthus socotranus,
a localised species found in northern Somalia, mountains
of south-west Arabia and on the island of Socotra The
Pine Grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, a pan-Holarctic pine
forest species |
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Grosbeak
is the name given to several species of seed-eating passerine
bird with large bills, in the finch and cardinal families.
The following is a list of grosbeak species - note that
the groups of species are not each other's closest relatives
- they share the name grosbeak purely because of morphological
similarity. The finch family, Fringillidae contains the
following 11 extant species (plus two species of Grosbeak
Canary): The São Tomé Grosbeak, Neospiza
concolor, a critically endangered restricted-range endemic
found only in forests on the island of São Tomé
off the West African coast, believed extinct until rediscovered
in 1996 The Golden-winged Grosbeak, Rynchostruthus socotranus,
a localised species found in northern Somalia, mountains
of south-west Arabia and on the island of Socotra The
Pine Grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, a pan-Holarctic pine
forest species |
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