This is either a purple finch or a house finch. We lean toward the former because it is so uniformly red, but it can be hard to tell them apart. Its head shape actually is more suggestive of the house finch, to me.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Seeing Red
This is either a purple finch or a house finch. We lean toward the former because it is so uniformly red, but it can be hard to tell them apart. Its head shape actually is more suggestive of the house finch, to me. 
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Penny--this is clearly a House Finch. Dan
Okay - great! It sure is the reddest one we've ever seen. Was head shape the decisive feature?
The Purple Finch is more of a wine-red, rather than brick red like a House Finch. Although it is a little bit hard to tell in your photos, House Finches also have brownish stripes on the back end--Purple Finches either lack stripes or the stripes are merlot-colored :)
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