Madeiran Chaffinch
Fringilla maderensis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,381
- Most observed in
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
Description
The Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla maderensis) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Eurasian chaffinch, but was recently revised to be a species in its own right, following a genetic and morphological analysis of the genus Fringilla in 2021. It is endemic to the Portuguese island of Madeira, part of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is locally known as the tentilhão.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Madeira chaffinch”.