Black-chinned Siskin

Spinus barbatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsForestCup nestSmall · 16 g

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The black-chinned siskin is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 13 to 20 g (0.46 to 0.71 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have black lores, forehead, and crown. Their face is olive or green with a yellowish wash and a bright yellowish supercilium from behind the eye to the side of the neck. Their nape and back are olive green with thin dark streaks and their rump and uppertail coverts are yellow to yellowish green. Their tail is mostly black with yellow bases on all but the innermost pair of feathers. Their wings have a complicated pattern. Voice: The black-chinned siskin's song is "a loud series of musical phrases and trills" and sometimes includes call notes. Its calls include a "rising tsooeet", an "abrupt chit or chit-tip", a "more subdued tsi-tsi-tsi, together with a more prolonged twittering note", and "a short chup in flight".

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When to see the Black-chinned Siskin

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-chinned Siskin

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Black-chinned Siskin

The black-chinned siskin is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, the finches and euphonias. It is found in Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands.

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