So what is your closest common bird relative? You look like some sort of finch.

Question: So what is your closest common bird relative? You look like some sort of finch.
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Asked by frostycetacea to Scottish Crossbill on 13 Nov 2017.
- Scottish Crossbill answered on 13 Nov 2017:
  
  Crossbills are a lot like the other finches. Redpoll is actually probably very close evolutionary. What’s interesting is that it might be only a “bit” of the genome that makes the crossbill distinctive, and the rest might be very, very similar to other passerine birds.

Question: So what is your closest common bird relative? You look like some sort of finch.