Wilkins's Finch

When to see the Wilkins's Finch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Wilkins's Finch

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 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 South Africa.

About the Wilkins's Finch

Wilkins's Bunting , also known as the grosbeak bunting, is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is restricted to Inaccessible Island and Nightingale Island of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and subantarctic grassland.

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Easily confused with

Inaccessible Island FinchNesospiza acunhaeIt ranges from 17 to 21 cm (6.7 to 8.3 in) in length and weighs 24 to 49 g (0.8 to 1.7 oz). Nightingale Island FinchNesospiza questiThe Nightingale Island finch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.