Northern Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula

Classification

Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae

The Eurasian bullfinch or common bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. In Anglophone Europe it is known simply as the bullfinch (English regional, Shropshire: plum bird), as it is the original bird to bear the name bullfinch. Taxonomy and systematics The Eurasian bullfinch was formally described in 1758 by Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Loxia pyrrhula.

Distribution

Northern Bullfinch — (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Christoph Moning · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Germany · 342Netherlands · 43United Kingdom · 39Luxembourg · 5Belgium · 2

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Christoph Moning · CC-BY DescriptionEurasian bullfinch, Wikipedia contributors

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