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Purple Finch

Description:

Either a house or purple finch. I am not experienced enough to determine.

Habitat:

Residential

Notes:

I have a dozen or so of these in my neighborhood. Pretty finch.

2 Comments

NathanWashor
NathanWashor 13 years ago

Thanks, that's what I thought too, but they are less common than a house finch so I wasn't sure.

jamerbean
jamerbean 13 years ago

Your picture rather nicely shows that he has red on his back, so that's a purple finch. :)

NathanWashor
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NathanWashor

Rhode Island, USA

Spotted on Jul 4, 2009
Submitted on Mar 4, 2011

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