Black rosy-finch Leucosticte atrata

Identification Tips:

• Length: 6 inches
• Black forehead, throat, breast and back
• Gray rear of head
• Brown breast and back
• Pink belly, undertail coverts, rump and wing feather edges
• Forked tail
• Female somewhat duller than male

Similar species:

The Black Rosy-Finch is most likely to be confused with other rosy-finches but it lacks brown in its plumage.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.