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Hesperiphona
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Species
Evening Grosbeak
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyFringillidae
Observations17,293
Observations recorded888,507
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UAZ, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - BIRD DIVISION, COLUMBUS, OH (OSUM)
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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Hesperiphona is a genus in the finch family Fringillidae.
The genus was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the evening grosbeak as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek hesperos meaning "evening" and phōnē meaning "sound" or "cry".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hesperiphona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.