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The purple finch is 12–16 cm (4.7–6.3 in) in overall length and weighs a mean 23.3 g (0.82 oz), ranging from 19.8–28.4 g (0.7 - 1.0 oz). It has a short forked brown tail and brown wings. Adult males are raspberry red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back is streaked.
The rosefinches are a genus, Carpodacus, of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae. Most are called "rosefinches" and as the word implies, have various shades of red in their plumage. The common rosefinch is frequently called the "rosefinch". The genus name is from the Ancient Greek terms karpos, "fruit", and dakno, "to bite".
Cassin's finch: western North America as far south as northern New Mexico and Arizona; also Southern California near Baja California. Haemorhous purpureus: Purple finch: Canada and the northeastern United States Haemorhous mexicanus: House finch: North America from southern Canada to the Mexican state of Oaxaca
The house finch is a moderate-sized finch, 12.5 to 15 cm (5 to 6 in) long, with a wingspan of 20 to 25 cm (8 to 10 in). Body mass can vary from 16 to 27 g ( to oz), with an average weight of 21 g ( oz).
These winter migrants include the purple finch, hermit thrush, evening grosbeak, and swamp and white-throated sparrows. The first Christmas Bird Count in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was ...
Sacramento residents recently began reporting sightings of a mysterious purple light in the skies above California’s capital city. It’s not a space portal and it’s no UFO. It’s the new ...
Brown-capped rosy-finch, Leucosticte australis (hypothetical) House finch, Haemorhous mexicanus; Purple finch, Haemorhous purpureus; Cassin's finch, Haemorhous cassinii; Oriental greenfinch, Chloris sinica (*) Common redpoll, Acanthis flammea (*) Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra; Cassia crossbill, Loxia sinesciuris (accidental)
The western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) is a common lizard of Arizona, New Mexico, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Northern Mexico, and the surrounding area. As the ventral abdomen of an adult is characteristically blue, it is also known as the blue-belly.
Binomial name. Haemorhous cassinii. ( Baird, 1854) blue: breeding; green: year-round; yellow: wintering. Synonyms. Burrica cassinii. Carpodacus cassinii. Cassin's finch ( Haemorhous cassinii) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. This species and the other "American rosefinches" are placed in the genus Haemorhous .
The northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), known colloquially as the common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal, is a bird in the genus Cardinalis.It can be found in southeastern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Minnesota to Texas, New Mexico, southern Arizona, southern California, and south through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.