Gray-crowned Rosy Finch 399817 213117174 2008-05-17T21:23:50Z Cryptic 295294 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/Betacommand|Betacommand]] ([[User talk:Betacommand|talk]]) to last version by Eubot {{Taxobox | name = Gray-crowned Rosy Finch | status = LC | image = Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch.jpg | image_width = 240px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Passeriformes]] | familia = [[Fringillidae]] | genus = ''[[Mountain finch|Leucosticte]]'' | species = '''''L. tephrocotis''''' | binomial = ''Leucosticte tephrocotis'' | binomial_authority = ([[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1832) }} The '''Gray-crowned Rosy Finch''', ''Leucosticte tephrocotis'', is a medium-sized [[finch]]. Adults are brown on the back and breast and mainly pink on the rest of the underparts and the wings. The forehead and throat are black; the back of the head is grey. They have short black legs and a long forked tail. There is some variability in the amount of grey on the head. Their breeding habitat is rocky islands and barren areas on mountains from [[Alaska]] to the northwestern [[United States]]. They build a cup nest in a sheltered location on the ground or on a cliff. These birds are permanent residents on some islands and in the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Rockies]]. Other birds [[bird migration|migrate]] south to the western [[United States]]. These birds forage on the ground, many fly to catch insects in flight. They mainly eat seeds from weeds and grasses, and insects. They often feed in small flocks. At one time, this bird, the [[Black Rosy Finch]] and the [[Brown-capped Rosy Finch]] were considered to be the same species as the [[Asian Rosy Finch]]. One of the best places to view all three North American species of Rosy-Finches is at the Crest House as they winter in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque. Visit www.rosyfinch.com for details. ==References== * {{IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=53455|title=Leucosticte tephrocotis|downloaded=12 May 2006}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern ==Further reading== ===Book=== * MacDougall-Shackleton, S. A., R. E. Johnson, and T. P. Hahn. 2000. ''Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte tephrocotis)''. In ''The Birds of North America'', No. 559 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. ===Thesis=== * Hartzell PL. Ph.D. (2005). ''Pacific Northwest glacial ecosystems''. Clark University, United States -- Massachusetts. * Richardson MI. Ph.D. (2003). ''Ecology, behavior and endocrinology of an alpine breeding bird, the grey-crowned rosy finch (Leucosticte tephrocotis)''. University of Washington, United States -- Washington. ===Articles=== * Airola DA. (1981). ''Recent Colonization of Lassen Peak California USA by the Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch Leucosticte-Tephrocotis''. Western Birds. vol '''12''', no 3. p. 117-124. * Arbogast MR. (1974). ''Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch Hepburns Form at Aberdeen''. South Dakota Bird Notes. vol '''26''', no 1. * Behle WH. (1973). ''Further Notes on Rosy Finches Wintering in Utah''. Wilson Bulletin. vol '''85''', no 3. p. 344-346. * Helmin GA & Helmin GE. (1973). ''4th Minnesota Observation in 80 Years''. Loon. vol '''45''', no 1. * Hukkanen RR, Richardson M, Wingfield JC, Treuting P & Brabb T. (2003). ''Avipox sp. in a colony of gray-crowned rosy finches (Leucosticte tephrocotis)''. Comparative Medicine. vol '''53''', no 5. p. 548-552. * Johnson RE. (1975). ''New Breeding Localities for Leucosticte in the Contiguous Western USA''. Auk. vol '''92''', no 3. p. 586-589. * Johnson RE. (1977). ''Seasonal Variation in the Genus Leucosticte in North America''. Condor. vol '''79''', no 1. p. 76-86. * Ludwig F. (1974). ''Minnesotas 3rd Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch''. Loon. vol '''46''', no 2. * MacDougall-Shackleton SA & Hahn TP. (1999). ''Photorefractoriness and the evolution of reproductive flexibility in cardueline finches''. American Zoologist. vol '''39''', no 5. * MacDougall-Shackleton SA, Katti M & Hahn TP. (2006). ''Tests of absolute photorefractoriness in four species of cardueline finch that differ in reproductive schedule''. Journal of Experimental Biology. vol '''209''', no 19. p. 3786-3794. * Mundinger PC. (1979). ''Call Learning in the Carduelinae Ethological and Systematic Considerations''. Systematic Zoology. vol '''28''', no 3. p. 270-283. * Murphy ME & King JR. (1982). ''Semi Synthetic Diets as a Tool for Nutritional Ecology''. Auk. vol '''99''', no 1. p. 165-167. * Pereyra ME, MacDougall-Shackleton SA, Sharbaugh SM, Morton ML, Katti M & Hahn TP. (2001). ''Relationships between photorefrac-toriness and reproductive flexibility in cardueline finches''. American Zoologist. vol '''41''', no 6. * Rising JD. (2001). ''Geographic variation in size and shape of Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis)''. Studies in Avian Biology. vol '''23''', p. 1-65. * Shreeve DF. (1980). ''Behavior of the Aleutian Gray-Crowned Rosy Finches Leucosticte-Tephrocotis-Griseonucha and Brown-Capped Rosy Finches Leucosticte-Tephrocotis-Australis''. Ibis. vol '''122''', no 2. p. 145-165. * Shreeve DF. (1980). ''Differential Mortality in the Sexes of the Aleutian Alaska USA Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch Leucosticte-Tephrocotis-Griseonucha''. American Midland Naturalist. vol '''104''', no 1. p. 193-197. * Spicer GS. (1978). ''A New Species and Several New Host Records of Avian Nasal Mites Acarina Rhinonyssinae Turbinoptinae''. Journal of Parasitology. vol '''64''', no 5. p. 891-894. * Yang S-J, Lei F-M & Yin Z-H. (2006). ''Molecular phylogeny of rosefinches and rose bunting (Passeriformes, Fringillidae, Urocynchramidae)''. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. vol '''31''', no 3. p. 453-458. * Yarbrough CG. (1970). ''The Development of Endothermy in Nestling Gray-Crowned Rosy Finches Leucosticte-Tephrocotis-Griseonucha''. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology. vol '''34''', no 4. p. 917-925. ==External links== *[http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/19601100.htm Stamps] (for [[Canada]]) with RangeMap *[http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=gray-crowned+rosy-finch&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch photo gallery] VIREO *[http://www.bird-friends.com/pics/GrayCrownedRosyFinch/GrayCrownedRosyFinch4LR.jpg Photo-High Res]; [http://www.bird-friends.com/pics/GrayCrownedRosyFinch/ Article] – bird-friends.com - ''Pictures of "Gray Crowned Rosy Finch"'' [[Category:Leucosticte]] [[Category:Birds of Canada|Finch, Gray-crowned Rosy]] [[Category:Native birds of Western Canada|Finch, Gray-crowned Rosy]] [[Category:Native birds of Alaska|Finch, Gray-crowned Rosy]] [[Category:Birds of the United States|Finch, Gray-crowned Rosy]] [[Category:Native birds of the Western United States|Finch, Gray-crowned Rosy]] [[Category:Western North American migratory birds|Finch, Gray-crowned Rosy]] [[fr:Roselin à tête grise]]