page_title: List of birds of Colorado
section_title: Finches, euphonias, and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Colorado / Finches, euphonias, and allies
caption_attribution_description: Brown-capped Rosy Finch (Leucosticte australis)
context_page_description: In the U.S. state of Colorado 511 species of birds have been documented as of July 2020 according to the Colorado Bird Records Committee of Colorado Field Ornithologists. One additional species has been added from eBird as a result of the 2020 taxonomic revisions to the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  Six of the documented birds are introduced species that are not native to North America, but were brought to this continent by humans. They are marked on this list as (I). Birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Colorado, are not included.
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Fringillidae
  Finches are seed-eating passerine birds that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well.
  Brambling, Fringilla montifringilla
  Evening grosbeak, Coccothraustes vespertinus
  Pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator
  Gray-crowned rosy-finch, Leucosticte tephrocotis
  Black rosy-finch, Leucosticte atrata
  Brown-capped rosy-finch, Leucosticte australis
  House finch, Haemorhous mexicanus
  Purple finch, Haemorhous purpureus
  Cassin's finch, Haemorhous cassinii
  Common redpoll, Acanthis flammea
  Hoary redpoll, Acanthis hornemanni
  Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
  White-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera
  Pine siskin, Spinus pinus
  Lesser goldfinch, Spinus psaltria
  Lawrence's goldfinch, Spinus lawrencei
  American goldfinch, Spinus tristis
caption: Brown-capped rosy-finch
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