Cassia Crossbill (Loxia sinesciuris)
About the Cassia Crossbill
The Cassia crossbill (Loxia sinesciuris) is a passerine bird in the family Fringillidae. It is endemic to the South Hills and Albion Mountains in southern Idaho. Cassia crossbill rarely interbreeds with other call types that move into the South Hills of Idaho yearly, and can be considered to represent a distinct species via ecological speciation. The Cassia crossbill have specialized beaks to access the seeds of the lodgepole pine cones in this region, but are poorly adapted to other pine cones in surrounding regions. The species was first described in 2009, but only was accepted to be its own species in 2017, when it was found out to be phylogenetically distinct from the red crossbill, and its 10 unique call types.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 41 recordings for this species: 35 CC BY-NC-SA · 6 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Parrot CrossbillLoxia pytyopsittacusrecording
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostrarecording
- Scottish CrossbillLoxia scoticarecording
- Two-barred CrossbillLoxia leucopterarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.