finch

any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

• chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs — small European finch with a cheerful song
• brambling, Fringilla montifringilla — Eurasian finch
• goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis — small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings
• linnet, lintwhite, Carduelis cannabina — small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead
• siskin, Carduelis spinus — small sharp-billed yellow-and-black Eurasian finch
• red siskin, Carduelis cucullata — South American species of scarlet finch with black head and wings and tail
• redpoll, Carduelis flammea — small siskin-like finch with a red crown
• redpoll, Carduelis hornemanni — small siskin-like finch with a red crown
• New world goldfinch, goldfinch, yellowbird, Spinus tristis — American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer
• pine siskin, pine finch, Spinus pinus — small finch of North American coniferous forests
• house finch, linnet, Carpodacus mexicanus — small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
• purple finch, Carpodacus purpureus — North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump
• canary, canary bird — any of several small Old World finches
• serin — any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe
• crossbill, Loxia curvirostra — finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed
• bullfinch, Pyrrhula pyrrhula — common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast
• junco, snowbird — small North American finch seen chiefly in winter
• New World sparrow — sparrow-like North American finches
• bunting — any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
• grosbeak, grossbeak — any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
• cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird — crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
• pyrrhuloxia, Pyrrhuloxia sinuata — crested gray-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico
• towhee — any of numerous long-tailed American finches
• honeycreeper, Hawaiian honeycreeper — small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands

• oscine, oscine bird — passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

• Fringillidae, family Fringillidae — finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings