Chinese Grosbeak

How to identify

Field marks

1. Stout conical bill, wax-yellow
2. Male has a solid black head
3. Male has purplish-black flight feathers with broad white tips
4. Male has entirely black tail feathers

Male, female and young

Male has a black hood; female lacks it, with a gray-brown crown, lores and cheeks, and chestnut-brown flanks that are less vivid than the male's.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: May and December · Most records: China, South Korea, Japan

Chinese Grosbeak has been recorded at 881 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 6 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Century ParkChina848 records
2. Kinmen – Agricultural Research InstituteChina712 records
3. Kinmen – Botanical GardenChina676 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaSouth KoreaJapanPhilippinesMongoliaUnited Kingdom

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Chinese grosbeak, yellow-billed grosbeak, or black-tailed hawfinch (Eophona migratoria) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.

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