Alternative name: Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak
- Rhynchostruthus percivali
Identification
14–15 cm (5½-6 in)
Male
- Warm brown forehead to upper nape and upper breast.
- White cheeks
- Black lores and chin
- Flight feathers mostly blackish but secondaries and greater coverts yellow
- Tail blackish with yellow fringes on most feathers (not central pair)
Female is similar to male but less clearly patterned.
Distribution
Southwest Arabia.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Somali Grosbeak, Socotra Grosbeak, and Arabian Grosbeak were formerly considered one species, Golden-winged Grosbeak.
Habitat
Rocky hillsides with scrub.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists of buds, fruit, small berries and a variety of seed species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2014)
- Kirwan, G. M. and P. Clement (2020). Arabian Grosbeak (Rhynchostruthus percivali), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.gowgro2.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Arabian Grosbeak. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Arabian_Grosbeak
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
