Finch of the trees

Etymology

The word finch comes from the vulgar Latin pincio . The first part, pinc , are an onomatopoeia describing its cry and are found in very many European languages like German fink or Breton the pint .

The name of the kind, Fringilla , comes from the name of the Latin bird and gave, in Italian, fringuello .

The name of the species, coelebs , means, in Latin, single person ( caelebs ). It would have been chosen by Carl von Linné (1707-1778) because, in Sweden, only the females and the youthful ones migrate in winter while the males remain on the spot.

List and distribution of the subspecies of the zone Western Paléarctique

Group coelebs .
F.C. coelebs . Scandinavia, Netherlands, France, Siberia, Italy, Balkans, Greece, Turkey d' Europe, Ukraine and Russia d' Europe.
F.C. solomkai . The Crimea, shore of the sea Azov, the Black Sea and with the Caucasus.
F.C. caucassica . Iran, Azerbaïdjan and Minor Asia.
F.C. alexandrovi . NR Iran, in winter with the Middle-East.
F.C. transcaspia Iran and Turkménie, in winter with the Middle-East.
F. Raising C. syriaca and Cyprus.
F.C. gengleri Great Britain and Ireland.
F.C. blearica Portugal, Spain and Balearic Islands.
F.C. tyrrhenica Corsica.
F.C. sarda Sardinia.

Group spodiogenys .
F.C. africana Morocco, Algeria, NO Tunisia and Libya.
F.C. spodiogenys Tunisia and NO Libya.

Group canariensis .
F.C. canariensis (synonymous F.C. tintillon ) Tenerife, Large Canarie and Will gum (the Canaries).
F.C. palmae Palma (the Canaries).
F.C. ombriosa Hierro (the Canaries).
F.C. maderensis Madeira.
F.C. moreletti the Azores.

Only certain varieties of breeding are regarded as domestic

See too

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