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Carduelis flavirostris

Male, subspecies pipilans
Photo by AlanBatt
North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, May 2004

[edit] Identification

• Brown streaked black upperparts
• Pink rump (male)
• Buff to white underparts, streaked brown
• Conical bill
  • Yellow in winter
  • Grey in summer

[edit] Similar Species

Immature Eurasian Linnet

[edit] Distribution

Northern Europe, Middle East and across central Asia.

[edit] Taxonomy

Sometimes placed in genus Linaria.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• C. f. flavirostris: Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland and Kola Peninsula; winters to southern Europe
• C. f. pipilans: Shetland Islands, Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides, Orkneys, Scotland, northern England and Ireland
• C. f. brevirostris: Eastern Turkey and Caucasus to north-western Iran
• C. f. korejevi: Southern Ural Mountains to Caspian Sea, Kirghiz steppes and Tien Shan Mountains
• C. f. atlaica: Altai Mountains of central Russia to north-western Outer Mongolia
• C. f. montanella: Kyrgyzstan (Alai Mts.) to Pamirs and western China (western Xinjiang)
• C. f. miniakensis: Western China (eastern Xinjiang, Qinghai and Gansu) to south-eastern Tibet
• C. f. rufostrigata: Himalayas (northern Kashmir to northern Nepal and south-western Tibet)

[edit] Habitat

Breeds on moorland. Winters in coastal dunes.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It builds its nest in a bush or heather. The clutch consists of 4-7 eggs.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes seeds.

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: a distinctive tweit, rather nasal
Song: contains fast trills

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Collins Field Guide 5th Edition ISBN 0 00 219900 9
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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