The gray-crowned rosy finch

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Leucosticte tephrocotis

(Swainson, 1832)

The gray-crowned rosy finch was first classified by English ornithologist William Swainson in 1832.^[1] This bird has been thought to form a superspecies with three other rosy finches (also known as mountain finch): black rosy finch (L. atrata) and the brown-capped rosy finch (L. australis), all of which were classified as the same species as the Asian rosy finch (L. arctoa) from 1983 to 1993.^[3][4][5] Recent mitochondrial DNA evidence shows the rosy finches are all indeed very closely related and can be easily confused with one another.^[6]

Female – Sandia Peak – New Mexico

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