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two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera bifasciata)
Subject: two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera bifasciata)
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two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera bifasciata)


Description
English: Loxia leucoptera bifasciata, male, on peanut feeder. Yorkshire, 54°25'12"N 1°08'00"W.
Date 12 November 2008
Author MPF https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPF
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loxia_leucoptera_bifasciata1.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".

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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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