Red Crossbill
Loxia curvirostra
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyFringillidae (Fringíl·lids)
- GenusLoxia (Crossbills)
- SpeciesLoxia curvirostra (Red Crossbill)
The red crossbill or common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. 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 beak size and shape, and call types, leading to different classifications of variants, some of which have been named as subspecies. The species is known as "red crossbill" in North America and "common crossbill" in Europe. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Khangchendzonga National Park
Dark-breasted Rosefinch
Procarduelis nipalensis
Spot-winged Grosbeak
Mycerobas melanozanthos
Plain Mountain-Finch
Leucosticte nemoricola
Scarlet Finch
Carpodacus sipahi
Red-headed Bullfinch
Pyrrhula erythrocephala
Yellow-breasted Greenfinch
Chloris spinoides
Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch
Carpodacus thura
White-winged Grosbeak
Mycerobas carnipes
Dark-rumped Rosefinch
Carpodacus edwardsii
Gold-naped Finch
Pyrrhoplectes epauletta
Crimson-browed Finch
Carpodacus subhimachalus
Tibetan Serin
Spinus thibetanus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Red Crossbill at Khangchendzonga National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there