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The saffron finch was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Fringilla flaveola. [2] The specific epithet is a diminutive of the Latin flavus meaning "golden" or "yellow". [3] The type locality is Suriname. [4]
Warbling white-eye (Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, see Japanese white-eye in Hawaii) Northern mockingbird (All main islands) Common myna (All main islands) Yellow-faced grassquit (O'ahu) Saffron finch (Hawai'i) Red-crested cardinal (Oahu, Maui, Kauai) Yellow-billed cardinal (Hawaii) Northern cardinal (All main islands) Western meadowlark (Kaua'i) House ...
The nene is the official state bird of Hawaii.. This list of birds of Hawaii is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of Hawaii as determined by Robert L. and Peter Pyle of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and modified by subsequent taxonomic changes.
Common diuca-finch, successfully introduced to Easter Island; Saffron finch, successfully introduced to Jamaica, Panama, the Hawaiian Islands and probably Tobago; Grassland yellow-finch, successfully introduced to Barbados, from whence it has colonised several other West Indies islands; White-collared seedeater, unsuccessfully introduced to Cuba
Sulphur-throated finch: Ecuador and Peru Sicalis uropigyalis: Bright-rumped yellow finch: the Altiplano of Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile and Argentina Sicalis flaveola: Saffron finch: Ecuador, western Peru, eastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina, and Trinidad and Tobago Sicalis columbiana: Orange-fronted ...
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.
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House finch (in the rest of mainland North America and Hawaii) Common starling from Europe; Shiny cowbird from South America [281] [282] Common hill myna [283] Common myna [72] Grey partridge from Europe; Himalayan snowcock from Asia, in Nevada [284] House sparrow from Europe; Spot-breasted oriole [285] Budgerigar from Australia (in Florida)