Teydefinch
Fringilla teydea Webb, Berthelot & Moquin-Tandon, 1836
Status not recordedsongbirds
The teydefinch (Fringilla teydea) is a species in the family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 29.2 g to 30.9 g.
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Quick facts about the teydefinch
- Weight
- 29.2 g – 30.9 g
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Granivore
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forest
- Young per litter or clutch
- 2
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrial
- Migration
- Sedentary
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the teydefinch live?
Not recorded
Is the teydefinch endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the teydefinch classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyFringillidae
- genusFringilla
- SpeciesFringilla teydea Webb, Berthelot & Moquin-Tandon, 1836
Other names and names in other languages (56)
- Blue chaffinchEnglish
- Canary Islands chaffinchEnglish
- TBCHEnglish
- Tenerife blue chaffinchEnglish
- حسون تنريفي الأزرقArabic
- Тенерифска синя чинкаBulgarian
- Pint glasBreton
- pinsà blauCatalan
- pěnkava kanárskáCzech
- Blå BogfinkeDanish
- TeidefinkGerman
- tenerifa fringoEsperanto
- Pinzón AzulSpanish
- sinivintEstonian
- kanarianpeippoFinnish
- Pinson bleuFrench
- Rí gormIrish
- Corkan gorrymManx
- פרוש כחולHebrew
- tenerifska zebaCroatian
- kék pintyHungarian
- Fringuello azzurroItalian
- カナリーアオアトリJapanese
- melsvasis kikilisLithuanian
- blåfinkNorwegian Bokmål
- Blauwe VinkDutch
- tenerifeblåfinkNorwegian
- zięba modraPolish
- tentilhão-azulPortuguese
- Голубой зябликRussian
- AlitbeibbošNorthern Sami
- pinka modráSlovak
- kanarski ščinkavecSlovenian
- Плава зеба / Plava zebaSerbian
- teneriffablåfinkSwedish
- Mavi ispinozTurkish
- зяблик блакитнийUkrainian
- 蓝燕雀Chinese
- pěnkava tenerifskáCzech
- Tenerife Blå BogfinkeDanish
- Teyde-FinkGerman
- TeydefinkGerman
- Pinzón azul de TenerifeSpanish
- Pinzón azul del TeideSpanish
- Tenerife sinivintEstonian
- teneriffanpeippoFinnish
- Pinson bleu de TenerifeFrench
- Fringuello azzurro de TenerifeItalian
- Fringuello blu delle CanarieItalian
- テネリフェアオアトリJapanese
- テネリフェオアトリJapanese
- Tenerifse blauwe vinkDutch
- tentilhão-azul-de-tenerifePortuguese
- Plava zeba sa ostrva TenerifeSerbian
- 特內里費島藍燕雀Chinese
- 藍燕雀Chinese
Relatives of the teydefinch
Other species in the same genus Fringilla.
Eurasian chaffinch
Fringilla coelebs
Brambling
Fringilla montifringilla
CompareTeydefinch vs Eurasian chaffinchTeydefinch vs BramblingTeydefinch vs Fringilla brasilianaTeydefinch vs Fringilla butyracea
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the teydefinch?
An adult teydefinch weighs 29.2 g – 30.9 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the teydefinch?
The teydefinch (Fringilla teydea) belongs to the family Fringillidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
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Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits · CC BY 4.0 · v1
Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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