Cocos Island Finch
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{{Taxobox
| name = Cocos Island Finch
| status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
| trend = stable
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[bird|Aves]]
| ordo = [[Passeriformes]]
| familia = [[Emberizidae]]
| genus = '''''Pinaroloxias'''''
| genus_authority = [[Richard Bowdler Sharpe|Sharpe]], 1885
| species = '''''P. inornata'''''
| binomial = ''Pinaroloxias inornata''
| binomial_authority = ([[John Gould|Gould]], 1843)
}}
The '''Cocos Island Finch''' or '''Cocos Finch''', ''Pinaroloxias inornata'', is the only one of [[Darwin's finches]] not native to the [[Galápagos Islands]], and the only member of the genus ''Pinaroloxias''. It is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to [[Cocos Island]], which is approximately 360 miles south of [[Costa Rica]], where it is the most common landbird.
It is a chunky 12 cm long finch weighing about 12.5 g and with a black decurved pointed bill. The male is entirely black, while the female is brown, which is paler below and heavily streaked. The young are similar but have yellow bills.
The roughly spherical nest is built at the end of a branch, and the standard clutch is two brown-spotted white eggs.
The Cocos Island Finch is found in all available habitats and eats a wide range of plant and insect food.
This species qualifies as Vulnerable because it has a very small range.
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2006|id=17284|title=Pinaroloxias inornata|downloaded=11 May 2006}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable
* ''A guide to the birds of Costa Rica'' by Stiles and Skutch ISBN 0-8014-9600-4
==External links==
*[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/ebas/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=9614&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]
*[http://www.bird-stamps.org/species/154225.htm Bird-Stamps.org's page, illustrations of two postage stamps containing images of the Cocos Island Finch]
[[Category:Central American restricted-range endemic bird species]]
[[Category:Pinaroloxias]]
[[Category:Genera of birds]]
[[fr:Spizin de Cocos]]
[[it:Pinaroloxias inornata]]