Jed Weingarten / Wild Wonders of China / Mixed flock of Mountain finches including Brandt's mountain finches (Leucosticte brandti) China, Sichuan Province, Garze Prefecture, Serxu County.

Jed Weingarten / Wild Wonders of China / Mixed flock of Mountain finches including Brandt's mountain finches (Leucosticte brandti) China, Sichuan Province, Garze Prefecture, Serxu County.

Jack Dykinga / House finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) aerial territorial fight, Santa Catalina Mountain foothills, Sonoran Desert. Arizona, USA. November. Small repro only

Dong Lei / Plain mountain-finches (Leucosticte nemoricola) feeding. Kawakarpo Mountain, Meri Snow Mountain National Park, Yunnan Province, China, October.

Ben Lascelles / Brandt's Mountain Finch (Leucosticte brandti) on ground, Moncier, near Mount Kailash, Tibet. June

Ben Lascelles / Brandt's Mountain Finch (Leucosticte brandti) on ground, Zhong Chu River Valley, Mount Kailash, Tibet, June

Fabrice Cahez / Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) male, feeding on leaf bud, Vosges mountain, France, January

Fabrice Cahez / Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) male perched on branch with snow, Vosges mountain, France, January

Hanne Jens Eriksen / Hodgson's rosy finch {Leucosticte nemoricola} Kyrgyzstan, Asia Plain mountain

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Viscacha (Lagidium sp.). Plate 42 from Volume 1 Trans Zool Soc London, 1835, 'Additional remarks on the Genus Lagotis, with some account of a second species referrible to it' with cont...