Family Fringillidae: Fringilline and Cardueline Finches

  1. RARE (Annual or probably annual in small numbers; most such species occur at the  perimeter of Alaska, in season; a few are scarce residents)
  2. CASUAL (Not annual; these species are beyond the periphery of annual range, but recur in Alaska at irregular intervals, usually in seasonal and regional patterns)
  3. ACCIDENTAL (One or two Alaska records)
Brambling Fringilla montifringilla House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus (2) Pine Siskin Carduelis pinus
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra American Goldfinch Carduelis tristis (2)
Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Oriental Greenfinch Carduelis sinica (2)
Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus (2) Common Redpoll Carduelis flammea Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula (2)
Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus (2) Hoary Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni Evening Grosbeak Coccothraustes vespertinus (2)
Cassin’s Finch Carpodacus cassinii (2) Eurasian Siskin Carduelis spinus (3)
Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes (2)

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Last updated: August 19, 2007