Sunday, October 9, 2016

This Red Crossbill is hunting for food


Description of Coloring Page: bird, wings, feathers, Red Crossbill hanging upside down from a fir branch, cone seed

The red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, also known as the common crossbill in Eurasia. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other fruits.
      Adults are often brightly coloured, with red or orange males and green or yellow females, but there is wide variation in colour, beak size and shape, and call types, leading to different classifications of variants, some of which have been named as subspecies. Read more...
"Red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) singing and feeding on a stump in the Squamish River Estuary. The males have a red/orange coloration, while the females are green and yellow in color."

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