By Francesco Veronesi from Italy (White-winged Snowfinch - Lessinia_S4E3611) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
White-winged Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis
Status.
Category E
Native Range
Europe and Asia. Several geographically isolated subspecies from the Pyrenees and Alps eastwards to the mountains of south Xinjiang in SW China.
Conservation Status
Least Concern
British Occurrence
NBN atlas has 0 records as at end 2024. Map Here.
An adult at an uncharacteristic lowland site in Suffolk from June 1969 to June 1972 was at a time when the species was being sold on the continent.(BOURC 37th Report)
