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.

Grosbeak finches

The finch family (Fringillidae) contains 13 living species named "grosbeak", which are all part of the large subfamily Carduelinae:

Typical grosbeak finches

• The two Nearctic species in the genus Hesperiphona (formerly in Coccothraustes):
  • Evening grosbeak, H. vespertina
  • Hooded grosbeak, H. abeillei
• The two species in the East Asian genus Eophona:
  • Japanese grosbeak, E. personata
  • Chinese grosbeak or yellow-billed grosbeak, E. migratoria
• The four species in the South Asian genus Mycerobas:
  • Black-and-yellow grosbeak, M. icterioides
  • Collared grosbeak, M. affinis
  • Spot-winged grosbeak, M. melanozanthos
  • White-winged grosbeak, M. carnipes
• Hawfinch (also called the European grosbeak)
  • Hawfinch C.coccothraustes

Grosbeak bullfinch

• The pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, a Holarctic pine forest species

Grosbeak goldfinches

• The three golden-winged grosbeaks in the genus Rhynchostruthus, found in Somaliland, mountains of south-west Arabia and on the island of Socotra and often considered a single species:
  • Somali golden-winged grosbeak, R. louisae
  • Arabian golden-winged grosbeak, R. percivali
  • Socotra golden-winged grosbeak, R. socotranus

Genus Crithagra

• Two species in the genus Crithagra are named "grosbeak-canaries" and one is called a grosbeak:
  • The São Tomé grosbeak, Crithagra concolor (formerly Neospiza concolor), a critically endangered restricted-range endemic found only in forests on the island of São Tomé off the West African coast, believed extinct until rediscovered in 1991
  • The northern grosbeak-canary or Abyssinian grosbeak-canary, Crithagra donaldsoni
  • The Southern grosbeak-canary or Kenya grosbeak-canary, Crithagra buchanani

Extinct species

• In addition, there are two extinct Fringillidae "grosbeaks":
  • The Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris), found only on the Ogasawara Islands, which was last recorded in 1832. Its relationships are obscure, but it was probably another member of the cardueline finches.
  • The Kona grosbeak or grosbeak finch (Chloridops kona), last recorded in 1896. It was a Hawaiian honeycreeper, subfamily Drepanidinae.