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Birdwatchers come to Scotland to spot golden and sea eagles, the rare and large-billed Scottish crossbill, and the rare capercaillie.
The forest is, of course, most famous for its ospreys but Peter says the Scottish crossbill, wonderfully adapted for life in the pine forest, is also a local treasure.
Both position types occur in every crossbill population studied, so the maintenance of this polymorphism necessitates an evolutionary explanation.
The common crossbill has a curved beak to extract pine nuts from the pine cones.
The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse.
Far off could be heard the warbling song of the red crossbill.
Loss of Newfoundland wolf, decline of Newfoundland marten and red crossbill.
Peter points out a goldcrest, Britain''s smallest bird, red crossbill and a woodpecker.
Well-known or interesting birds classified as finches include the bunting, canary, cardinal, chaffinch, crossbill, Galapagos finch, goldfinch, grass finch, grosbeak, sparrow, and weaver.
Keep your gaze skyward to spot noisy groups of crossbill, a chunky finch that usually flies at treetop height, fluttering from cone to cone to feed.
For instance, due to their declining populations, the rusty blackbird, the white-winged crossbill, and the boreal chickadee should be monitored in their distribution area throughout Québec.
The national park is also thought to provide habitat for the provincially endangered red crossbill that is known to be associated with late-successional, conifer forests.
I would add that the siskin and crossbill are subject to irruptive behaviour.
The forest is home to the endangered capercaillie and endemic Scottish crossbill.
The Scottish crossbill was confirmed as a unique species in August 2006, on the basis of having a distinctive bird song.
It was considered to be possibly a race of either the red crossbill or the parrot crossbill, both of which also occur in the Caledonian Forest.
The Scottish crossbill is extremely difficult to separate from the red and parrot, and plumage distinctions are negligible.
He says, 'A crossbill needs to find a spruce seed every seven seconds.
This species of crossbill is resident, and is not known to migrate.
Amazingly, for a small bird, the crossbill can lay eggs in January.
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There is an odd superstition connected with the crossbill, in Thuringia, which makes the wood-cutters very careful of the nests.
Sometimes we find them in cones Snipper the crossbill has opened but hasn't picked all the seeds out of.
Their curving bills are crossed at the tip, which strange arrangement gives them their name of crossbill.
Among the species which thus modify their habits are the red crossbill, the redpoll, the Lapland longspur, and the snowy owl.
The common crossbill of the palaearctic region is about the size of a skylark, but more stoutly built.
We had hoped to find in these forests a home of the Spanish crossbill, but not a sign of it rewarded our search.
A Maine hunter was once shooting moose in the middle of January, when he came upon the nest of a crossbill, with the bird sitting.
The crossbill troubles itself but little about the other inhabitants of the woods, and is said to be almost fearless of man.
The crossbill must be mentioned for the sake of the peculiarity indicated by its name.
The crossbill derives its name from having the tips of its bill crossed.
The curious beak of a crossbill is to pick seeds out of pine cones.
The American, or Red, crossbill is the more common of our two.
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