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Red Crossbill
Loxia curvirostra · Family Fringillidae
Loxia curvirostra
Family Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,540,456
- Countries and territories with records
- 91
About this species
This species has 1,540,456 occurrence records from 91 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (32.6%), Sweden (18.6%), Canada (11.7%), Denmark (6.5%) and Norway (5.9%); together they account for 75.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.045% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Loxia curvirostra combines the genus name Loxia with the species epithet curvirostra. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Loxia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Loxia leucoptera, Loxia pytyopsittacus and Loxia scotica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 3.4 times the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.