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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 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).
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 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".
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 ...
The American goldfinch ( Spinus tristis) is a small North American bird in the finch family. It is migratory, ranging from mid- Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter. The only finch in its subfamily to undergo a complete molt, the American ...
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.
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)
Finch. The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches generally have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where they are usually resident and do not migrate. They have a worldwide native distribution except ...
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 .