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I'm not sure whether this finch was planning to eat this flower, use it for nesting, or give it to her sweetheart, but either way I'm glad she held the pose long enough for me to snap it!
Red-headed Finch.
They average 12.5 cm in length.
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House Finches can be found year-around in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, but they will move to another area if a food source is not readily available.
This picture was cropped from my picture taken at Lake St Clair Metropark.
Gouldian Finch, sometimes called Rainbow Finch, is endemic to Australia, but is found in many aviaries, like the Toledo Zoo Aviary, Toledo, Ohio.
Like the familiar story of declining populations of wildlife, the Gouldian Finch has been the victim of habitat destruction, "collecting" for cages/aviaries, and being an easy target for predators.
There are many color variations of Gouldian Finches, especially in captive populations.
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Sicalis flaveola (Saffron finch / Canario criollo)
Mainly a seed eater, the Saffron Finch generally searches for seeds and small arthropods on or near the ground.
There has been some disagreement as to whether the Saffron Finch belongs in the family Emberizidae with the sparrows or Thraupidae with the Tanagers.
There are three, separate populations one in northern Colombia and Venezuela; another in Ecuador and Peru and the third in north-east Brazil to central Argentina.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
House Finches, particularly males, can look very different from one to another. This is largely due to differences in their diet rather than regional differences. Even though all of eastern North America’s House Finches are descended from the same few birds released on Long Island (meaning they’re much more closely related to each other than they are to birds across the West), there aren’t any strong differences in size, shape, or color between the two regions.
A red-browed finch, Neochmia temporalis, standing on pigeon grass, Setaria sp. on which it was feeding. Pigeon grass is an introduced plant and has become a weed in parts of Australia.
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This very bright male was in a shadowy space. I like the way a shaft of light illuminated the Finch and part of his spruce bough perch.
Edmonton, Alberta.
Canário-da-terra-verdadeiro
Canarinho (nome comum)
Ordem: Passeriformes
Família: Thraupidae
Espécie: S. flaveola
Subespécie: Sicalis flaveola brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1789)
Nome Científico: Sicalis flaveola
Nome em Inglês: Saffron Finch
Praça dos Cristais
Brasília, Brasil
Canarinho - Saffron Finch
Canário-da-terra-verdadeiro
Saffron Finch
Sicalis flaveola
Thraupidae (Família)
Passeriformes (Ordem)
Pássaro Silvestre
Parque da Cidade
Dona Sarah Kubitschek
Brasília, Brasil
Here's our orange coloured male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) I find this little guy quite photogenic!
I love rain, but seeing sunlight this morning prompted a need to capture little finches in a rhododendron.
Experimented with a subtle, I hope, vignette to lessen the many buds and twigs.
850mm, f/6.7, 1/640, ISO 360
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William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
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As I was photographing the Hummingbirds feeding on the Red Hot Pokers, this male House Finch flew in and posed for a few photos!
Some folks call her Common… think i'll call her Cutie !!
The House Finch was originally a bird of the western United States and Mexico. In 1940 a small number of finches were turned loose on Long Island, New York, after failed attempts to sell them as cage birds (“Hollywood finches”). They quickly started breeding and spread across almost all of the eastern United States and southern Canada within the next 50 years.
The oldest known House Finch was a female, and at least 11 years, 7 months old when she was recaptured and released during banding operations in New York in 1985, the same state where she had been banded in 1973.
(Nikon D500, 500mm, 1/500 @ f/6.3, ISO 1600)
Canário-da-terra-verdadeiro
Saffron Finch
Sicalis flaveola
Thraupidae (Família)
Passeriformes (Ordem)
Free Bird
Olhos D'Água, Alexânia
Goiás, Brasil
Slightly less well known than its lookalikes (House Finch and Purple Finch), the Cassin’s Finch is the characteristic rosy-tinged finch of the mountains of western North America.
The Cassin’s Finch was first collected on an 1850s expedition to the southwestern mountains by the Pacific Railroad Survey. The eminent ornithologist John Cassin, who created illustrations for the survey, called the pink-tinged finch the “greatest bird in the lot.” Cassin asked his friend and colleague Spencer Baird to name the new species after him.
More info here: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cassins_Finch/overview
Purple Finch - Mooresville, North Carolina
Bird Species (# 334) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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A male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) perches in the scrubs in the desert region of Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
12 December, 2017.
Slide # GWB_20171212_0097.CR2
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