Siskins, Crossbills and Allies
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Fringillidae
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have 12 tail feathers and 9 primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well. There are 137 species worldwide and 33 species which occur in Russia.
- Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Plain Mountain-Finch Leucosticte nemoricola
- Black-headed Mountain-Finch Leucosticte brandti
- Asian Rosy-Finch Leucosticte arctoa
- Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Pallas's Rosefinch Carpodacus roseus
- Red-mantled Rosefinch Carpodacus rhodochlamys
- Caucasian Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla
- Parrot Crossbill Loxia pytyopsittacus
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
- Common Redpoll Carduelis flammea
- Hoary Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni
- Eurasian Siskin Carduelis spinus
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
- Oriental Greenfinch Carduelis sinica
- Twite Carduelis flavirostris
- Eurasian Linnet Carduelis cannabina
- Fire-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus
- European Serin Serinus serinus
- Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
- Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- Yellow-billed Grosbeak Eophona migratoria
- Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata
- White-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes
- Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguinea
- Mongolian Finch Rhodopechys mongolica
- Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githaginea
- Long-tailed Rosefinch Uragus sibiricus
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