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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!

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Three more months of this, finch! My own textured background.

Finch.

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.

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The Purple Finch is the bird that Roger Tory Peterson famously described as a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” For many of us, they’re irregular winter visitors to our feeders, although these chunky, big-beaked finches do breed in northern North America and the West Coast. Separating them from House Finches requires a careful look, but the reward is a delicately colored, cleaner version of that red finch. Look for them in forests, too, where you’re likely to hear their warbling song from the highest parts of the trees.

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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.

This House Finch looked considerably different from others I have seen. The reds were very red, and its chest looked bright white. Also, the reddish color was pretty much confined to the areas shown in the picture (head,neck and rump), and ironically there were no houses in any nearby area : ))

A very cold day here with a wind chill down to -40 C. (-40 F) It was bright and sunny though, and a good day to hang around this popular feeding area. Lots of birds taking advantage of the plentiful food, including this beautiful male Purple Finch.

Hermitage Park. Edmonton, Alberta.

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.

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.

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He was perched on a frost covered tree branch while searching for some berries to eat.

Seed eating Finch endemic to Northern Australia

Finch.

Sierra Vista, Arizona

Male Red House Finch in the snow.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. ~ Atticus Finch

Male Red House Finch.

Oriental green finches (Chloris sinica) were feeding at a tree top. Since there were abundant foods, one of it might become careless. In Nagoya, Japan.

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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.

William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.

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Long Island, New York

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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Here's our orange coloured male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) I find this little guy quite photogenic!

Finch.

As I was photographing the Hummingbirds feeding on the Red Hot Pokers, this male House Finch flew in and posed for a few photos!

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

Male American Goldfinch Bird.

Male Red Finch bird in the backyard.

Purple Finch - Mooresville, North Carolina

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Red-browed Finch snacking on grass seeds. I had to crawl on my stomach ever so slowly towards this little guy and was able to get reasonably close enough to get this shot.

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.

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A male house finch perched on a spruce branch, waiting for his turn at the feeder in an urban park.

LaBelle, Idaho

The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of the family of the finches, which is assigned to the genus of the zebra finches. The Australian zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata castanotis, is a very popular ornamental bird in Germany, the Timor zebra finch is only very rarely kept or even bred.

This female House finch was seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.

The green and red bokeh are from a nearby eucalyptus tree.

RKO_5037. Another Kgalagadi beauty! Time flies (too)! Red-headed finch!

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An orange male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) sitting pretty in our Empress tree.

Male yellow finch at a bird feeder.