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Photo Properties
Make
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model
E-3
Aperture Value
f/6.3
Color Space
Uncalibrated
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Program
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
500 mm
ISO
640
Metering Mode
Center Weighted Average
Shutter Speed Value
1/320 sec
Date/Time
Sat 10 May 2014 02:37:21 PM EDT
English Red Crossbill
Scientific (Loxia curvirostra)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Fringillidae
Family (English) Finches, Euphonias
Other name(s) Common Crossbill, Crossbill
Breeding Regions PAL, OR, NA, MA
Breeding Range Subregions subarctic to subtropical Holarctic conifer forest; British Is., 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 Tun
Nonbreeding Range Subregions irruptively southward
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Belgium,Belize, Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Canada,China,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark,El Salvador, Estonia,Finland,France,Georgia,Germany,Gibraltar,Greece,Guatemala,Honduras,Hungary, India - mainland,Iran,Ireland,Italy,Japan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Libya, Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Mexico,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Myanmar, Nepal,Netherlands,Nicaragua,North Korea,Norway,Pakistan,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Romania, Russia,Serbia,Slovakia,Slovenia,South Korea,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan, Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Ukraine,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Vietnam,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
curvirostra n, w, c Europe to ne Siberia and n Mongolia
stricklandi sw USA to s Mexico
grinnelli wc to sw USA
benti c Rocky Mts. (wc USA)
bendirei inland sw Canada and inland nw USA
sitkensis coastal s Alaska to coastal w USA
percna Newfoundland
minor se Canada and ne USA
luzoniensis montane Luzon (n Philippines)
japonica se Siberia to Sakhalin and Kuril Is., ne China, Korean Pen., Hokkaido and n, c Honshu (n, nc Japan)
meridionalis s Vietnam
himalayensis Himalayas to s China
tianschanica se Kazakhstan to Tajikistan and nw China
altaiensis ne Kazakhstan, sw Siberia and w Mongolia
guillemardi e Balkans and Turkey to the Caucasus and s Ukraine
poliogyna s Italy, nw Africa
corsicana Corsica
balearica c, s Spain, Balearic Is.
mesamericana Guatemala and Belize to Nicaragua
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Fichtenkreuzschnabel
French Bec-croisé des sapins
Chinese 红交嘴雀
Japanese イスカ
Russian Клёст-еловик
Spanish Piquituerto común
Portuguese cruza-bico-comum
Bird Data App text Crossbills have bills where the upper and lower {mandible} cross each other. Their bills are used to extract seeds from pine cones.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)