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The hawfinch was described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in his Historiae animalium in 1555. [2] He used the Latin name Coccothraustes which is derived from the Greek: kokkos is a seed or kernel and thrauĊ means to break or to shatter. [3]
Scientific name Range Comments Pictures Hawfinch: Coccothraustes coccothraustes: Mid-latitude Eurasia and North Africa Currently an accidental species in Madeira, but subfossil remains suggest it resided in the archipelago once. [14]
The beak color is yellow (hence the common name of "yellow-billed grosbeak") with a black tip. The body is of a uniform gray color, darker on the back and wings and lighter and tending to silver on the belly, with accentuated brown shades on the sides.
The Hawker Hawfinch fighter aircraft was designed in 1925 as a replacement for both the Armstrong-Whitworth Siskin and the Gloster Gamecock fighters. It participated in the competition to meet Specification F9/26, together with other aircraft manufacturers, that included nine different designs, of which five were built. [1]
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.
Confusingly, only 79 of the species include "finch" in their common names, and several other families include species called finches. This list includes 18 extinct species, the Bonin grosbeak and 17 Hawaiian honeycreepers.
The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
Hawfinch FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds Creator Charlesjsharp. Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp 10:38, 14 November 2022 (UTC) Support. I did tweak the article a little bit though: Don't know why the picture of the hawfinch head was gigantic compared to all the other images.