Grosbeak / ˈ ɡ r oʊ s b iː k / is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks . Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea , these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly related songbirds . Some are cardueline finches in the family Fringillidae , while others are cardinals in the family Cardinalidae ; one is a member of the weaver family Ploceidae . The word "grosbeak", first applied in the late 1670s, is a partial translation of the French grosbec , where gros means "large" and bec means "beak".
3-479: See text. The Oriental grosbeaks ( Eophona ) are a genus of finches containing two species: The genus was introduced in 1851 by the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould . The name Eophona is derived from the classical Greek words ēōs meaning "dawn" and phōnē meaning "shout" or "cry". [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This Fringillidae -related article
6-520: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Grosbeak The following is a list of grosbeak species, arranged in groups of closely related genera . These genera are more closely related to smaller-billed birds than to other grosbeaks. Exceptions are the three genera of "typical grosbeak finches", which form a group of closest living relatives and might thus be considered the "true" grosbeaks. The finch family ( Fringillidae ) contains 13 living species named "grosbeak", which are all part of
9-603: The large subfamily Carduelinae : Typical grosbeak finches grosbeak bullfinch grosbeak goldfinches Genus Crithagra Two species in the genus Crithagra are named "grosbeak-canaries" and one is called a grosbeak: In addition, there are two extinct Fringillidae "grosbeaks": The cardinal family ( Cardinalidae ) of the Americas contains the following 17 "grosbeaks": Typical cardinal-grosbeaks Masked cardinal-grosbeaks Blue cardinal-grosbeaks Three additional species of "grosbeaks" have long been placed in
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