page_title: List of birds of Tennessee
section_title: Finches, euphonias, and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Tennessee / Finches, euphonias, and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: Goldfinch (female), shot in Franklin, TN
context_page_description: This list of birds of Tennessee includes species documented in the U.S. state of Tennessee and accepted by the Tennessee Bird Records Committee of the Tennessee Ornithological Society. As of February 2020, 423 species were on the official list. Of them, 41 are considered accidental, 30 are considered casual, and 13 are labeled provisional as defined below. Five species were introduced to North America, two are extinct, and three have been extirpated.
  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.
  Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in Tennessee as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Accidental – a "very rare and unpredictable vagrant" per the TBRC
  Casual – a species which "occurs with some frequency but not every year" per the TBRC
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. Ten species have been recorded in Tennessee.
  Evening grosbeak, Coccothraustes vespertinus (C)
  Pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator (A) (P)
  Purple finch, Haemorhous purpureus
  House finch, Haemorhous mexicanus (Native to the southwestern U.S.; introduced in the east)
  Common redpoll, Acanthis flammea (A)
  Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
  White-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera (A)
  Pine siskin, Spinus pinus
  Lesser goldfinch, Spinus psaltria (A)
  American goldfinch, Spinus tristis
caption: American goldfinch (female)
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