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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 .
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.
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 Thraupidae is a member of an assemblage of over 800 birds known as the New World, ... Black-headed hemispingus ... Tucumán mountain finch ...
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.
Black-and-chestnut warbling finch: Poospiza whitii Sclater, PL, 1883: 182 Collared warbling finch: Poospiza hispaniolensis Bonaparte, 1850: 183 Rufous-breasted warbling finch: Poospiza rubecula Salvin, 1895: 184 Tucuman mountain finch: Poospiza baeri (Oustalet, 1904) 185 Cochabamba mountain finch: Poospiza garleppi (Berlepsch, 1893) 186 Slaty ...
The black-faced munia (Lonchura molucca) is a species of estrildid finch found in Indonesia and East Timor. It occurs in a wide range of habitats including artificial landscapes (e.g. parks and gardens), forest, grassland and savannah. It was first described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae ...
Birds in central Asia (the caniceps group) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Adults moult after the breeding season, with some individuals beginning in July and others not completing their moult until November.