Acanthis flammea

low (locally high) Arctic to n temperate Holarctic tundra and taiga: sw, se Greenland, Iceland, n Scandinaria e through n Russia to Chukotskiy Pen., Kamchatka and Sakhalin (e Russia). Also temperate w, wc Palearctic lowland (montane in s) birch and larch woods: British Isles, sw Scandinavia e to n Germany and s Poland; s to se France, Austria and Czech Republic

winters irruptively southward