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 LC    White-winged Snowfinch* Id (Atlas):
    Montifringilla nivalis Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-winged Snowfinch, Common Snowfinch, Eurasian Snowfinch

Family
Passeridae (Old World Sparrows)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Rocky areas.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B) (NB), Albania (B), Andorra (B) (NB), Armenia (B), Austria (B) (NB), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), China (mainland), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (E) (B), Czech Republic (NB), France (B) (NB), Georgia (B), Germany (B), Greece (B) (NB), India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (NB), Italy (B) (NB), Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B), Liechtenstein (B) (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B), Pakistan, Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B), Serbia (B), Slovenia (B) (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Switzerland (B) (NB), Tajikistan (B), Turkey (B) (NB), Uzbekistan (B).

Vagrant to Hungary, Portugal.

Population
Estimated population is 3,000,000 - 20,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (111)...)

 
White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis) [XC802011]
     by Piqu\u00e9 Simon from P\u0131narba\u015f\u0131 K\u00f6y\u00fc, \u00c7amard\u0131, Ni\u011fde, Turkey (call)

 
White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis) [XC376734]
     by Mehmetunlu from Juf, Hinterrhein, Graub\u00fcnden, Switzerland (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Black-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla adamsi) and Tibetan Snowfinch (Montifringilla henrici), and all have in the past sometimes been considered conspecific. Subspecies are geographically isolated from one another, and it is suggested that, in absence of gene flow, several are well towards achieving full species rank.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

  • nivalis (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Southern Europe from northern Spain, Pyrenees, the Alps and Corsica east to Greece.
  • leucura Bonaparte, 1855   -  Southern and eastern Asia Minor.
  • alpicola (Pallas, 1811)   -  Caucasus, and northern Iran east to Afghanistan.
  • gaddi Zarudny & Loudon, 1904   -  Zagros Mts, in south-western Iran.
  • tianshanica Keve-Kleiner, 1943   -  Western and central Tien Shan (Kazakhstan) south to northern Pamirs (northern Tajikistan).
  • groumgrzimaili Zarudny & Loudon, 1904   -  Eastern Tien Shan, north-western China (northern Xinjiang) and Altai to central Mongolia.
  • kwenlunensis Bianchi, 1908   -  Mountains of southern Xinjiang (Kunlun, Altun Shan and Nan Shan), in south-western China.



References
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