Grosbeak - Grosbeak Finches

Grosbeak Finches

The finch family (Fringillidae) contains 13 living species named "grosbeak", which are all part of the large subfamily Carduelinae:

Typical grosbeak finches

• The two Nearctic and one Palearctic species in the genus Coccothraustes:
  • Evening Grosbeak, C. vespertinus
  • Hooded Grosbeak, C. abeillei
  • Hawfinch, C. coccothraustes
• The two species in the East Asian genus Eophona:
  • Japanese Grosbeak, E. personata
  • Chinese Grosbeak or Yellow-billed Grosbeak, E. migratoria
• The four species in the South Asian genus Mycerobas:
  • Black-and-yellow Grosbeak, M. icterioides
  • Collared Grosbeak, M. affinis
  • Spot-winged Grosbeak, M. melanozanthos
  • White-winged Grosbeak, M. carnipes

Grosbeak bullfinch

• The Pine Grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, a Holarctic pine forest species

Grosbeak goldfinches

• The three golden-winged grosbeaks in the genus Rhynchostruthus, found in northern Somalia, mountains of south-west Arabia and on the island of Socotra and often considered a single species:
  • Somali Golden-winged Grosbeak, R. louisae
  • Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak, R. percivali
  • Socotra Golden-winged Grosbeak, R. socotranus

Affiliations unknown

• 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

Two species in the genus Serinus are named "Grosbeak-canaries": the Abyssinian Grosbeak-canary (Serinus donaldsoni) and the Southern Grosbeak-Canary or Kenya Grosbeak-canary (Serinus buchanani). The genus Serinus is somewhat closely related to the golden-winged grosbeaks.

In addition, there are two extinct Fringillidae "grosbeaks":

• The Bonin Grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris), found only on the Ogasawara Islands, which was last recorded in 1832. Its relationships are obscure, but it was probably another member of the cardueline finches.
• The Kona Grosbeak or Grosbeak Finch (Chloridops kona), last recorded in 1896. It was a Hawaiian honeycreeper, subfamily Drepanidinae.