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Acanthis flammea · Family Fringillidae

Acanthis flammea

Family Fringillidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
GBIF occurrence records
3,326,890
Countries and territories with records
73
Redpoll
Jyrki Salmi from Finland · Acanthis flammea, Kotka, Finland 2.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jyrki Salmi from Finland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Acanthis_flammea_-_Common_Redpoll_XC115598.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 3,326,890 occurrence records from 73 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (26.7%), Finland (17.8%), Canada (16.5%), the United States (13.1%) and Norway (9.1%); together they account for 83.2% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.87% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Acanthis flammea combines the genus name Acanthis with the species epithet flammea. It is the only species of the genus Acanthis in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 7.2 times the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Fringillidae

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