- Azores Bullfinch
Taxobox
name = Azores Bullfinch
status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Fringillidae
genus = "Pyrrhula "
species = "P. murina"
binomial = "Pyrrhula murina"
binomial_authority = (Godman, 1866)
synonyms = "Pyrrhula pyrrhula murina"The Azores Bullfinch ("Pyrrhula murina") is a
critically endangered passerine endemic toSão Miguel Island ,Azores .Description
The Azores Bullfinch was previously regarded as subspecies of the
Eurasian Bullfinch ("Pyrrhula pyrrhula"), but "Pyrrhula pyrrhula" and "Pyrrhula murina" were split into separate species in 1993. [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=40407|title=Pyrrhula murina|downloaded=10 October 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered] ["British Birds" 85(12): 677-680. ] This plump bird reaches a size of 17 cm.Notes
References
*Vester, F., Diamond, A. W., Peterson, R. T. (1989): "Save the Birds" -
Houghton Mifflin
*Bibby, Colin J.; Charlton, Trevor D. & Ramos, Jaime (1992): Studies of West Palearctic birds, 191External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8886&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]
*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Pyrrhula_murina/ images and movies of the Azores bullfinch "(Pyrrhula murina)"]
* [http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2008/03/azores_bullfinch_champion.html Europe's rarest finch finds favour]
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