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two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera)
| Subject: | two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera)
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Date: 2009:01:01 08:51:56
Camera: Canon EOS 40D (Canon)
F number: f/10.0
Exposure: 1/800 sec
Focal Length: 375/1
Upload Date: 2017:03:07 00:40:22
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Description
White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera)
Date 1 January 2009, 08:51
Source White-winged Crossbill male
Author dominic sherony http://www.flickr.com/people/9765210@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-winged_Crossbill_-_male.jpg
The two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera), known as the white-winged crossbill in North America, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has two subspecies, white-winged crossbill Loxia leucoptera leucoptera in North America, and two-barred crossbill Loxia leucoptera bifasciata in NE Europe and N Asia. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. Loxia is from loxos, "crosswise", and leucoptera means "white-winged" from leukos, "white" and pteron, "wing".
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Loxia
Species: Loxia leucoptera Gmelin, 1789
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Scientific Name: Loxia leucoptera Gmelin, 1789
Common Names: Two-barred Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill
French: Bec-croisé bifascié German: Bindenkreuzschnabel Spanish: Piquituerto Aliblanco
Taxonomy: Loxia leucoptera J. F. Gmelin, 1789, Hudson Bay, Canada, and New York, USA. |
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