Red Crossbill Images

Red Crossbill Images, Facts and Information:

Loxia curvirostra

• Red Crossbills are medium sized finches. Male Red Crossbills have red to orange bodies, bright red rumps and dark brown wings, Female Red Crossbills have yellow-orange crowns and rumps with olive-green bodies. Both sexes have crossed bills.
• Red Crossbills are non-migratory.
• Preferred habitats include coniferous forests.
• Red Crossbills eat seeds, buds, and insects.
• Red Crossbills lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 12 to 18 days.The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of crossbills can be called a “warp” or “crookedness” of crossbills.
• Red Crossbills can live to be at least 8 years of age.

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