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Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Leucosticte tephrocotis

Photo by avesjohn
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Description:

A medium-sized finch of alpine and tundra habitats (lower in winter), often in large flocks (photo 2), brown overall with a gray hindcrown in most subspecies, but in the coastal subspecies (littoralis, highlighted in photo 3), the entire head is gray.

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