Description
White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera)
Date 1 January 2009, 08:51
Source White-winged Crossbill male
Author dominic sherony http://www.flickr.com/people/9765210@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-winged_Crossbill_-_male.jpg

The two-barred crossbill (Loxia leucoptera), known as the white-winged crossbill in North America, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has two subspecies, white-winged crossbill Loxia leucoptera leucoptera in North America, and two-barred crossbill Loxia leucoptera bifasciata in NE Europe and N Asia. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. Loxia is from loxos, "crosswise", and leucoptera means "white-winged" from leukos, "white" and pteron, "wing".
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Loxia
Species: Loxia leucoptera Gmelin, 1789