page_title: List of birds of Yuma County, Arizona
section_title: Fringilline finches, cardueline finches and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Yuma County, Arizona / Fringilline finches, cardueline finches and allies
context_page_description: This is a list of birds of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The following markings are used:
  Accidental - occurrence based on fewer than 10 records and unlikely to occur regularly
  Extinct - a recent species that no longer exists
  Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Yuma County, Arizona, but other populations exist elsewhere
  (I) Introduced - a population established solely as the result of direct or indirect human intervention; synonymous with non-native and non-indigenous
  Hypothetical - birds that have had a credible sighting reported, but have not been documented with a specimen or suitable photograph
  Casual - occasional visitor
  = found in the southwest of Arizona, Yuma County.
  sw–06 = observed in 2006.
  —SW breeding species.
  Bolded, species, hot, lower desert species.
  –16 species are found local, in a specific locality.
  LCRV– Lower Colorado River Valley
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. There are 137 species worldwide and ?20 North American species. The 9 listed Finches and allies, are mostly winter residents or permanent.
  (SW) Purple finch, Haemorhous purpureus, (winters), Oct–Jan
  Cassin's finch, Haemorhous cassinii, (–Intermittent winter range–), Nov–Dec
  ( * SW) House finch, Haemorhous mexicanus, Permanent
  Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, (C) Permanent: Mtns: northern and eastern Ariz. (Observed in  Lower Colo. R. Valley from Aug–Dec)
  (SW) Pine siskin, Spinus pinus, (winter range)
  ( * SW) Lesser goldfinch, Spinus psaltria, Permanent
  ( * SW) Lawrence's goldfinch, Spinus lawrencei, (winter range)- (–locales–)
  (SW) American goldfinch, Spinus tristis, (winter range)
  (SW) Evening grosbeak, Hesperiphona vespertina, Permanent: Mtns: NE (Four Corners), E Mtns and SE Ariz Biome, (Observed in Lower Colorado River Valley from Oct–Nov)
caption: Lesser goldfinch (Spinus psaltria)
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