Red crossbill: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the red crossbill lives – recorded in 51 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Loxia curvirostra
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	51 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
Mass	2.95 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Fringillidae

Where does the red crossbill live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the red crossbill in 51 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a red crossbill?

Wikidata records the following for the red crossbill: mass 2.95 g (birth weight).

Is the red crossbill endangered?

The red crossbill’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the red crossbill?

The red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Fringillidae, genus Loxia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the red crossbill

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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Red crossbill (revision 1367582542), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q26552 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).