white-winged snowfinch
montifringilla nivalis latin

The White-winged Snowfinch's food is mainly seeds with some insects.

Sexes are usually very similar, although the male White-winged Snowfinch has a distinctive grey head.

In Europe, "Snowfinch" is often used for the White-winged Snowfinch specifically.

It forms large flocks in winter, sometimes mixed with White-winged Snowfinch, Rock Sparrow and larks.

The White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis), or just Snowfinch, is a small passerine bird.

Bonaparte had correctly used Montifrigilla for the White-winged Snowfinch - the only snowfinch known then - however, and thus Pyrgilauda had remained an unused "shell" of a taxon until someone placed a species in it.

Consequently, later attempts to re-establish that name as a junior synonym of Aegithalos are preempted by the erection of Orites for the White-winged Snowfinch by Eugen von Keyserling and Johann Heinrich Blasius in 1840.

Woodland birds include the European Green Woodpecker and the rare White-backed Woodpecker, cliffs harbour the Red-billed Chough and Alpine Chough and bare mountain birds include the Rock Partridge and White-winged Snowfinch.

The White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis), or just Snowfinch, is a small passerine bird.