Species profile
Leucosticte kadiaka
Leucosticte kadiaka
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 366294, adult male, collected at Karluk, 57.33 N, 154.32 W (Times atlas), Kodiak (5 Kadiak) Island, Alaska, on 14 March 1897, by Cloudsley Ritter (no. 96). From the McGregor Collection (no. 3048) via the Johathan Dwight Collection (no. 37699).
- Scientific name
- Leucosticte kadiaka
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Leucosticte
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