Hawfinches in Britain

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Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Coccothraustes
Species: C. coccothraustes
Binomial name
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, is a passenger bird in the finch family Fringillidae.


The Hawfinch is a scarce resident breeding bird in Britain.

[edit] Status summary

[edit] Region by region

[edit] Southeast England

Southeast England is the stronghold of Hawfinch in Britain. One well-known site is Bedgebury Pinetum, where flocks gather to roost in winter. The species is also found in the New Forest — a central roost site exists here, at Blackwater Arboretum.

[edit] Southwest England

In Devon, Hawfinch is largely confined to the upper Teign Valley.

[edit] Western England and Wales

Two areas in which Hawfinch reliably occurs are the Forest of Dean and the Wyre Forest.

[edit] Eastern England

Hawfinch is present in the Breckland of East Anglia.

[edit] Northern England

Hawfinches are regularly found in a small number of locations in northern England.

[edit] Scotland

Scone Palace near Perth is the most well-known site in Scotland for Hawfinch.

[edit] Status as a Migrant

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