Gray-crowned rosy-finch
Leucosticte tephrocotis
Identification Tips:
- Length: 6.25 inches
- Black forehead and throat
- Gray rear of head
- Brown breast and back
- Pink belly, undertail coverts, rump and wing feather edges
- Forked tail
- Sexes similar
Similar species:
The Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch is most likely to be confused with other
rosy-finches. Black Rosy-Finch lacks brown back and breast. Brown-capped
lacks gray on head.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.