Red Crossbill
Loxia curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758
Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias
Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra breeds across conifer forests in the Palearctic, Oriental Region, North America and Middle America, from the British Isles and Scandinavia through Russia and across parts of Asia, and from Alaska and Newfoundland south through the mountains of western North America and into Nicaragua. It is a passerine in the finch family Fringillidae. Its most striking feature is the bill, with the two mandibles crossing at the tip. Outside the breeding season it moves south in irregular irruptions.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias
- Breeding range
- Palearctic, Oriental Region, North America, Middle America: subarctic to subtropical Holarctic conifer forest: British Isles, Scandinavia (except far n) e across Russia to Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin and s Kuril Is. (se Russia), Hokkaido to c Honshu (n, c Japan), n Korean Pen., in s through Iberian Pen., Morocco to Tunisia (nw, nc Africa), e through Mediterranean, Turkey, Caucasus, Altai of e Kyrgyzstan, e Kazakhstan, nw Xinjiang (nw China), s, c Mongolia to Heilongjiang and Hebei (ne China); disjunctly wc to e Himalayas, se Tibet, Qinghai and Gansu to nw Yunnan; s Vietnam; Luzon (n Philippines); se Alaska e to Newfoundland (ne Canada), s to n Baja California (nw Mexico), Rocky and Appalachian mts., s through Nicaragua
- Nonbreeding range
- irruptively southward
