Twite, Carduelis flavirostris, is a species of passerine bird in the finch family found in heathland and shrub and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems. It has a disjunct breeding distribution in Europe, occupying the north-west, the Caucasus and adjacent parts of Russia and Turkey. This species breeds on lower montane and submontane plateaux, open moorland, barren hillsides, scree slopes, boulder-strewn areas with little or sparse vegetation, steppes, alpine meadows and areas with stunted bushes and often near boggy areas. Race pipilans breeds mostly on grassy hillsides and moorlands with heather (Erica) and bracken (Pteridium) and also in coastal heather in Scotland (including Shetland) (European Red List 2015).

Carduelis flavirostris has a breeding population size of 6200-15700 pairs and a breeding range size of 59600 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Decreasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Carduelis flavirostris was assessed as Threatened, as the species meets one or more of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened at the EU27 scale.