Bonin Greenfinch

Chloris kittlitzi (Seebohm, 1890)

Bonin Greenfinch, Chloris kittlitzi, is a finch in the family Fringillidae that lives on Hahajima and Minamiiwoto in the Bonin Islands of Japan, with breeding in stunted forest in the subtropical Palearctic. Outside the breeding season it moves into open habitats. It is an endemic bird of the Ogasawara Islands and was once treated as part of the grey-capped greenfinch, but is now recognised as a separate species. It was described by Seebohm in 1890.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias

Breeding range

Palearctic: insular subtropical e Palearctic in stunted forest: Hahajima and Minamiiwoto (Bonin=Ogasawara Is., se Japan)

Nonbreeding range

to open habitats