Subspecies
Described subspecies include:
- P. p. pileata W. MacGillivray, 1837 – British Isles
- P. p. europoea Vieillot, 1816 – western and central Europe
- P. p. iberiae Voous, 1951 – mountains of south-west France, northern Portugal and northern Spain
- P. p. pyrrhula (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern, south central and eastern Europe across Siberia and central Asia to the Sea of Okhotsk
- P. p. rossikowi Derjugin & Bianchi, 1900 – Turkey, Caucasus and north-west Iran
- P. p. caspica Witherby, 1908 – Azerbaijan and northern Iran.
- P. p. cineracea Cabanis, 1872 (Baikal Bullfinch) – Siberia, north-east Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China
- P. p. cassinii S. F. Baird, 1869 – Russian Far East and north-eastern China
- P. p. griseiventris Lafresnaye, 1841 – Russian Far East, China, Korea and Japan
The Azores Bullfinch, previously regarded as a subspecies of Eurasian Bullfinch, is now recognised as a distinct species.
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