Crimson-winged Finch

When to see the Crimson-winged Finch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Crimson-winged Finch

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, Cyprus.

About the Crimson-winged Finch

The crimson-winged finch is a pale-colored thickset finch with a heavy, dull yellowish bill. It is the only species placed in the genus Rhodopechys. It is found in North Africa and from Turkey to northeast Pakistan. The crimson-winged finch has sometimes been split into two species, the African crimson-winged finch and the Asian crimson-winged finch.

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Easily confused with

Cassia CrossbillLoxia sinesciurisThe Cassia crossbill shares many physical features with the red crossbill and all of its different call types. Dark-rumped RosefinchCarpodacus edwardsiiThe dark-rumped rosefinch is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. Kauai AmakihiChlorodrepanis stejnegeriThe Kauaʻi ʻamakihi is a species of Hawaiian honeycreepers endemic to Kauaʻi in the family Fringillidae.