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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.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
The name Fringillidae for the finch family was introduced in 1819 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach in a guide to the contents of the British Museum. [3] [4] The taxonomy of the family, in particular the cardueline finches, has a long and complicated history.
Finches are a form taxon composed of unrelated but similar-looking songbirds within the family Fringillidae of the superfamily Passeroidea. The family Fringillidae includes numerous birds not called "finches" in their common names, including the crossbills , siskins , and waxbills .
Black-masked finch: Coryphaspiza melanotis (Temminck, 1822) 10 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
The purple finch was designated the state bird of New Hampshire in 1957. [13] The New Hampshire red hen (breed of domestic chicken) was also proposed, but was not chosen in favor of the purple finch. [14] In 1763, Richard Brookes made the description of the female purple finch in Mexico with the name of "chiantototl" (chia seed bird). [15]
Birds do not act aggressively toward predators within their territory; their only reaction is alarm calling. Predators include snakes, weasels, squirrels, and blue jays, which may destroy eggs or kill young, and hawks and cats, which pose a threat to both young and adults. The oldest known American goldfinch was 10 years and 5 months old. [26]
The European goldfinch was one of the birds described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his Historiae animalium of 1555. [2] The first formal description was by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae published in 1758. He introduced the binomial name, Fringilla carduelis.