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Darwin's Finches Evolve Before Scientists' Eyes: new developments reported 13 July 2006; Fink F.A.Q. Darwin's finches inspired the naming of the Fink project, a collaborative initiative for porting open source software to the Darwin platform to enable its use and evolution in the Apple Mac OS X environment. "Fink" is the German name for "finch."
The genus Certhidea was introduced in 1837 by the English ornithologist John Gould with the green warbler-finch as the type species. [2] [3] The name is a Latin diminutive of the genus Certhia introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the treecreepers. [4] The members of the genus form part of a group collectively known as Darwin's finches. [5]
The genus Camarhynchus was introduced in 1837 by English ornithologist John Gould, with the large tree finch as the type species. [2] The name combines the Ancient Greek kamara meaning "arch" or "vault" with rhunkhos meaning "bill". [3] The members of the genus form part of a group collectively known as Darwin's finches. [4]
The Cocos finch is a member of a group collectively known as Darwin's finches. [5] Although traditionally placed with the buntings and New World sparrows in the family Emberizidae, [6] molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that Darwin's finches are members of the subfamily Coerebinae within the tanager family Thraupidae. [7]
Big Bird, also known as the Big Bird lineage, is one of the species of Darwin's finches that is exclusively present on Daphne Major of the Galápagos Islands.It originated from a mixed-breed of the Española cactus finch (Geospiza conirostris) and the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) that immigrated to Daphne Major in 1981. [1]
The grey warbler-finch (Certhidea fusca) is a species of bird, one of Darwin's finches in the tanager family Thraupidae. Sometimes classified in the family Emberizidae, more recent studies have shown it to belong in the tanager family. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Illustration of wing and head
The flies have left the finches with enlarged, deformed beaks, which produce songs that female finches simply don’t like. Finches ‘unable to mate’ after parasites warp their beaks and ruin ...
The large ground finch weighs about 27-39 g, and its length ranges slightly 15-16 cm. [2] It is the largest species of Darwin's finch both in total size and size of beak. The feather and bill colors vary between males and females.