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Coccothraustes coccothraustes · Family Fringillidae

Coccothraustes coccothraustes

Family Fringillidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,402,996
Countries and territories with records
89
Hawfinch
Marek Szczepanek · Coccothraustes coccothraustes 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Marek Szczepanek · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Alexander Kurthy · Coccothraustes_coccothraustes_-_Hawfinch_XC107638.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alexander Kurthy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,402,996 occurrence records from 89 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (29.7%), France (13.9%), Germany (10%), Denmark (7.8%) and the Netherlands (7.8%); together they account for 69.1% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.41% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Coccothraustes coccothraustes combines the genus name Coccothraustes with the species epithet coccothraustes. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Coccothraustes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Coccothraustes vespertinus and Coccothraustes abeillei.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 3.1 times the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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