• Skip to Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Local Navigation
  • Skip to Search
  • Skip to Sitemap
  • Skip to Footer
Help develop a Bird ID tool!

White-winged Crossbill

Loxia leucoptera ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: FRINGILLIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A medium-sized finch of the boreal forest, the White-winged Crossbill is adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of coniferous trees. It moves large distances between years tracking the cone crop from place to place.

Read Cornell Lab of Ornithology's blog, Round Robin
Funky Nests Challenge

Calls

  • Song, call
    Recorded by Gregory F. Budney
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song is a series of trills interspersed with chirps and warbles. Call a very dry, rapid "chut-chut-chut-chut."

Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos

You Might Also Like

White-winged Crossbills: Story in BirdScope