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Arabian Grosbeak - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo © by Mike Barth
Oman, April 2017

Alternative name: Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak

Rhynchostruthus percivali

Identification

14–15 cm (5½-6 in)
Male

  • Warm brown forehead to upper nape and upper breast.
  • White cheeks
  • Black lores and chin
  • Flight feathers mostly blackish but secondaries and greater coverts yellow
  • Tail blackish with yellow fringes on most feathers (not central pair)

Female is similar to male but less clearly patterned.

Distribution

Southwest Arabia.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Somali Grosbeak, Socotra Grosbeak, and Arabian Grosbeak were formerly considered one species, Golden-winged Grosbeak.

Habitat

Rocky hillsides with scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of buds, fruit, small berries and a variety of seed species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2014)
  3. Kirwan, G. M. and P. Clement (2020). Arabian Grosbeak (Rhynchostruthus percivali), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.gowgro2.01

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