---
title: "Madeiran Chaffinch"
description: "Fringilla maderensis — Uccelli. The Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla maderensis) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/madeiran-chaffinch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Madeiran Chaffinch

> Fringilla maderensis — Uccelli. The Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla maderensis) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

- Scientific name: *Fringilla maderensis*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 2210
- iNaturalist taxon: [1504818](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1504818)

## Names

- en: Madeiran Chaffinch
- de: Madeira-Buchfink
- es: Pinzón vulgar de madeira
- fr: Pinson de Madère

## Countries with the most observations

PT (2134)

## Summary

The Madeira chaffinch (Fringilla maderensis) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Eurasian chaffinch, but was recently revised to be a species in its own right, following a genetic and morphological analysis of the genus Fringilla in 2021. It is endemic to the Portuguese island of Madeira, part of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean.  It is locally known as the tentilhão.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira_chaffinch

## Photo

![Madeiran Chaffinch](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/madeiran-chaffinch/medium.jpg)

Photo: famkoe · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291777374

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/madeiran-chaffinch?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).