Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), Baltasound - geograph.org.uk - 1362630

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Summary[edit] Description: English: Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), Baltasound, near to Baltasound, Shetland Islands, Great Britain. Crossbills are birds of coniferous forest but they frequently erupt if there is insufficient food for the population. Then they may appear in all sorts of places and feed on anything they can find. This fine red male is feeding on the seeds of Sycamore in the plantation at Halligarth. Date: 20 June 2009. Source: From geograph.org.uk; transferred by User:innotata using geograph_org2commons. Author: Mike Pennington. Permission(Reusing this file): Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0. Attribution(required by the license)Mike Pennington / Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), Baltasound / CC BY-SA 2.0. Mike Pennington / Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), Baltasound. Camera location60° 45′ 41.88″ N, 0° 51′ 12.18″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 60.761634; -0.853384. Object location60° 45′ 43″ N, 0° 51′ 12″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 60.761860; -0.853300.