European greenfinch

European greenfinch
Male
Female
Song recorded in Tula Oblast, Russia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Chloris
Species:
C. chloris
Binomial name
Chloris chloris
Range of the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris)
  Breeding
  Resident
  Non-breeding
  Extant & Introduced (resident)
  Possible extinct & Introduced
Synonyms
  • Loxia chloris Linnaeus, 1758
  • Carduelis chloris (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Ligurinus chloris (Linnaeus)[2]
  • Coccothraustes chloris Flem.[3]

The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

This bird is widespread throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia. It is mainly resident, but some northernmost populations migrate further south. The greenfinch has also been introduced into Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, and Argentina.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Chloris chloris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22720330A132000123. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22720330A132000123.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ For Ligurinus chloris see for instance Bonhote, J. Lewis (1907). Birds of Britain. illustrated by H.E. Dresser. London: Adam and Charles Black. pp. 114/5. OCLC 1451688.. John Gould uses the scientific name Ligurinus chloris for the greenfinch in his The Birds of Great Britain (vol. 3, 1873, plate 38).
  3. ^ In The Birds of Europe (vol. 3, 1837, plate 57) John Gould describes the "green grossbeak" (Coccothraustes chloris).