Pinzones pertaining to this family presents/displays a Maxima diversity by Eurasia, where pinzón common or vulgar is one of the most frequent species of the west of Europe. In the Iberian Peninsula he is habitual. It measures 15 cm in length. The male has a crown of blue color slate; the back part is of brown tone; obispillo, grayish, and presents/displays tonalities between pink and oxide in the face and the chest. In the wings, to the height of shoulders, it has white strips, and in flight it shows the outer pens of the tail, of white color. The female is of color trims off lower branches of grayish by the paler back and by the ventral zone.

Pinzones nests in forests and their margins, and gardens; often they have two nidadas per year. They produce a great destruction in the fruit trees, since in spring the cocoons of the flowers eat. Many of them migrate to the south and the west of Europe during the winter. Both sexes travel, from some zones, in separated sides. The young male of pinzón learns the song of the near adults, and different songs can be distinguished according to the zones in which they live.

Pinzón real lives frequently in subalpine forests of birches and taiga euroasiática. One reproduces in the north of Europe and inverna in the Mediterranean zone, where it frequents forests, parks, gardens and fields. The male has obispillo white, the dark back and the white strips eave. During the migrations, the flocks often are mixed, of pinzones vulgar and real. A species that sometimes considers pinzón common is pinzón blue or of the Teide, of the Canary Islands, that nest in the coniferous forests of Great Canaria and Tenerife.

Considered like cage birds, these tiny species are native of Africa, Asia and Australia, although they have been introduced in other places; for example, nine species have been introduced in the Hawaii islands. In captivity, commonest zebra is pinzón, an Australian species very used in the laboratories for conduct studies animal due to the facility with which it reproduces.

At some time from the past, certain type of pinzón arrived at the Galápagos islands, located in the Pacific Ocean as opposed to the western coast of South America. Their descendants occupied different ecological niches in the different islands, giving rise to 14 species, all of them pertaining ones to this family. One of them evolved outside the archipelago of the Galápagos, and arrived until the Coconut island, almost 800 km to the northeast. All blackish or gray grayish are extinguished, with or without rays. They defer by his size and the form from his tips. These last ones go from the typical tip of insectivore to a heavy and powerful tip able to break nuts and seeds. One of the species, the asadorero, uses tools, in particular a cactus thorn, to remove larvae from the holes of the trees.