finch
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Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds (synset 101532313)
is a type of: oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatussubtypes:
- chaffinch, fringilla coelebs - small European finch with a cheerful song
- brambling, fringilla montifringilla - Eurasian finch
- carduelis carduelis, goldfinch - small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings
- carduelis cannabina, linnet, lintwhite - small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead
- carduelis spinus, siskin - small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak
- carduelis cucullata, red siskin - South American species of scarlet finch with black head and wings and tail
- carduelis flammea, redpoll - small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump
- carduelis hornemanni, redpoll - small siskin-like finch with a red crown
- goldfinch, new world goldfinch, spinus tristis, yellowbird - American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer
- pine finch, pine siskin, spinus pinus - small finch of North American coniferous forests
- carpodacus mexicanus, house finch, linnet - small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
- carpodacus purpureus, purple finch - North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump
- canary, canary bird - any of several small Old World finches
- serin - any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe
- crossbill, loxia curvirostra - finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed
- bullfinch, pyrrhula pyrrhula - common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast
- junco, snowbird - small North American finch seen chiefly in winter
- new world sparrow - sparrow-like North American finches
- bunting - any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
- grosbeak, grossbeak - any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
- cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, cardinalis cardinalis, redbird, richmondena cardinalis - crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
- pyrrhuloxia, pyrrhuloxia sinuata - crested grey-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico
- towhee - any of numerous long-tailed American finches
- hawaiian honeycreeper, honeycreeper - small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands
belongs to: family fringillidae, fringillidae - finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings
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