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A photo of a Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male
Red Crossbill, Male

Red Crossbill

Loxia curvirostra

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.
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Gray Ellwood
Thursday 01 Jun 2023 - 10:15am
United Kingdom
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Paul Shenton
Thursday 01 Jun 2023 - 4:06am
United Kingdom
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ian coleman
Wednesday 31 May 2023 - 1:58pm
United Kingdom
A photo of a Crossbill photographed in Rufford Abbey United Kingdom
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Mark Smithson
Wednesday 31 May 2023 - 1:50pm
United Kingdom
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