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Brandt's mountain finch (Leucosticte brandti), also known as the black-headed mountain-finch, is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.
The mountain finches are birds in the genus Leucosticte from the true finch family, Fringillidae. This genus also includes the rosy finches , named from their pinkish plumage. The genus is a sister to the monotypic Procarduelis containing the Asian dark-breasted rosefinch . [ 2 ]
The family Fringillidae are the "true" finches. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 239 species in the family, distributed among three subfamilies and 50 genera. Confusingly, only 79 of the species include "finch" in their common names, and several other families include species called finches.
Pampa finch: Embernagra platensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 11 Serra finch: Embernagra longicauda Strickland, 1844: 12 Lesser grass finch: Emberizoides ypiranganus Ihering, HFA & Ihering, R, 1907: 13 Wedge-tailed grass finch: Emberizoides herbicola (Vieillot, 1817) 14 Duida grass finch: Emberizoides duidae Chapman, 1929: 15 Great Inca finch: Incaspiza ...
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The Plain Mountain Finches diet consists of seeds from grasses, alpine herbs as well as small invertebrates. A nestlings diet is a mixture of plant and animal food. [6] [7] These finches are foragers [4] and often desensitized to people. They are known to take scraps of human food from encampments.
Female - Sandia Peak - New Mexico. The gray-crowned rosy finch was first classified by English ornithologist William Swainson in 1832. [1] This bird has been thought to form a superspecies with three other rosy finches (also known as mountain finch): black rosy finch (L. atrata) and the brown-capped rosy finch (L. australis), all of which were classified as the same species as the Asian rosy ...
Brambling's song Brambling in Pahalgam, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has also been called the cock o' the north and the mountain finch.