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title: "Azores Chaffinch"
description: "Fringilla moreletti — Ptaki. The Azores chaffinch (Fringilla moreletti) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, closely related to the Eurasian chaffinch F."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/azores-chaffinch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Azores Chaffinch

> Fringilla moreletti — Ptaki. The Azores chaffinch (Fringilla moreletti) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, closely related to the Eurasian chaffinch F.

- Scientific name: *Fringilla moreletti*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 1825
- iNaturalist taxon: [1504817](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1504817)

## Names

- en: Azores Chaffinch
- de: Azorenbuchfink
- es: Pinzón común de las Azores
- fr: Pinson des Açores

## Countries with the most observations

PT (1767)

## Summary

The Azores chaffinch (Fringilla moreletti) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, closely related to the Eurasian chaffinch F. coelebs, and formerly treated as a subspecies of it. Genetic, morphological, and vocal differences from it have resulted in it being elevated to species level in 2021. It is endemic to the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, part of Macaronesia in the warm temperate northern Atlantic Ocean. It is locally known as the tentilhão or sachão.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Dimitri Brosens · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/304448300

## Machine access

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