Black Rosy Finch

The adult Black Rosy-Finch is medium-sized; dark brownish black on back, breast, neck, and face; gray patches wrapping around back of head; black forehead; pink on belly, rump, and in wings. Juveniles are similar to females, but are lighter, usually grayer brown, lacking silver-gray crown, have a black forehead, and pink on feather margins.

References cited in Species Profile

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2015. Black Rosy-Finch. All About Birds. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black_Rosy-Finch/id
• Rosenberg, K.V., D. Pashley, B. Andres, P. J. Blancher, G.S. Butcher, W.C. Hunter, D. Mehlman, A.O. Panjabi, M. Parr, G. Wallace, and D. Wiedenfeld. 2014. The State of the Birds 2014 Watch List. North American Bird Conservation Initiative, U.S. Committee. Washington, D.C. 4 pages.
• Great Basin Bird Observatory. 2015. Black Rosy-Finch. http://www.gbbo.org/pdf/bcp/77_Black%20Rosy-Finch.pdf
• Johnson, Richard E. 2002. Black Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte atrata), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/678
• Martin, K. M. 2001. Wildlife in alpine and subalpine habitats. Pages 239-260 in Wildlife-habitat relationships in Oregon and Washington. (Johnson, D. H. and T. A. O'Neil, Eds.) Oregon State Univ. Press, Corvallis.
• Romme, W. H. and M. G. Turner. 1991. Implications of global climatic change for biogeographic patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Conserv. Biol. 5:373-386.