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BIRDS: Finches, Grosbeaks, Crossbills, Redpolls, Pine Siskins (Perching Birds)

(Perching Birds) (Order: PASSERIFORMES, Family: FRINGILLIDAE) Red Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill, House Finch, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Pine Grosbeak, Common Redpoll, Hoary Redpoll
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2016 Audubon Photography Awards - American Goldfinch by Deborah O'Sullivan
Goldfinch on thistle John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania June 10, 2016
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American Goldfinch

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Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll - Audubon. One of the "winter finches," nesting in the Arctic and sometimes southern Canada and the northern states. Redpolls are tiny, restless birds, feeding actively on seeds among trees and weeds, fluttering and climbing about acrobatically, their flocks seemingly always on the move. For their small size, they have a remarkable ability to survive cold temperatures; their southward flights are sparked by temporary scarcity of food in the North, not by cold. At bird feeders in w

Common Redpoll

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Hoary Redpoll - Audubon. A very close relative of the Common Redpoll, but adapted to even bleaker conditions, the Hoary Redpoll is only a scarce visitor south of the Arctic. In those winters when large numbers of redpolls invade southward, a few Hoarys are usually mixed into the flocks. On the breeding grounds, this species extends farther north, onto high Arctic islands of Canada. Where the two redpolls overlap, the Hoary tends to nest on more barren upland tundra, where the patches of shrubs a
Hoary Redpoll - Carduelis hornemanni - photo by Terry Sohl
Hoary Redpoll

Hoary Redpoll

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It's Spring Time! You're likely to hear female House Finches singing now. Listen to the cheery chirps of the House Finch. Photo: Hazel Erikson/Audubon Photography Awards
House Finch. House Finches are small-bodied finches with fairly large beaks & somewhat long, flat heads. The wings are short, making the tail seem long by comparison. Adult males are rosy red around the face and upper breast, with streaky brown back, belly and tail. In flight, the red rump is conspicuous. Adult females are plain grayish-brown with thick, blurry streaks and an indistinctly marked face.
House Finch - Audubon. Adaptable, colorful, and cheery-voiced, House Finches are common from coast to coast today, familiar visitors to backyard feeders. Native to the Southwest, they are recent arrivals in the East. New York pet shop owners, who had been selling the finches illegally, released their birds in 1940 to escape prosecution; the finches survived, and began to colonize the New York suburbs. By 50 years later they had advanced halfway across the continent, meeting their western kin on

House Finch

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Pine Grosbeak Male by Michael Quinton
Pine Grosbeak - Audubon. A big boreal finch, uncommon but widespread in spruce and fir forests of the North and the high mountains. It is often absurdly tame, allowing very close approach; ironically, this sometimes makes it easy to overlook in dense coniferous forest, since it may sit motionless as a birder walks by. On those occasions when Pine Grosbeaks move south in winter, they may be more conspicuous, often feeding on buds in the bare branches of maples or other trees.
Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator). large finch found in coniferous woods across the western mountains of the US and Canada.

Pine Grosbeak

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2016 Audubon Photography Awards - Purple finch by Gail Bisson
Amazing vibrant colors on this Purple Finch. touchn2btouched
Leucistic Purple Finch

Purple Finch

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Red Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, Fringillidae family.
Red Crossbill - Audubon. Red Crossbills in North America are quite variable, from small-billed birds that feed on spruce cones to large-billed ones that specialize on pines. Scientists have puzzled over how to classify these different forms. New research suggests that there may be as many as eight different full species of Red Crossbills on this continent. Slight differences in callnotes are apparently enough to keep them from mixing, and several kinds may occur in the same area without interbre
Red Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) can visit your bird feeders. Check out Episode 16 of Brome Bird News to find out how to attract them: https://youtu.be/idg3djL27ZQ

Red Crossbill

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What do you know about white-winged crossbills? [By Michele Wilson Berger/Photograph by Nick Saunders]
White-winged Crossbills - Audubon. Nomads of the spruce woods, White-winged Crossbills wander throughout the boreal zones of the northern hemisphere, often in large flocks. Their peculiar crossed bills are perfectly adapted for prying open spruce cones to get the seeds; flocks will travel long distances, perhaps clear across Canada at times, in search of good spruce cone crops. When they find such crops, they may settle briefly to build nests and raise young, regardless of the season, even in mi
Male White-Winged Crossbill, North America. Has adapted for extracting seeds from cones of coniferous trees. Moves large distances between years tracking cone crops. Photo by Kevin Karlson

White-winged Crossbill

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Pine Grosbeak - Audubon. A big boreal finch, uncommon but widespread in spruce and fir forests of the North and the high mountains. It is often absurdly tame, allowing very close approach; ironically, this sometimes makes it easy to overlook in dense coniferous forest, since it may sit motionless as a birder walks by. On those occasions when Pine Grosbeaks move south in winter, they may be more conspicuous, often feeding on buds in the bare branches of maples or other trees.
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It's Spring Time! You're likely to hear female House Finches singing now. Listen to the cheery chirps of the House Finch. Photo: Hazel Erikson/Audubon Photography Awards
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Red Crossbill - Audubon. Red Crossbills in North America are quite variable, from small-billed birds that feed on spruce cones to large-billed ones that specialize on pines. Scientists have puzzled over how to classify these different forms. New research suggests that there may be as many as eight different full species of Red Crossbills on this continent. Slight differences in callnotes are apparently enough to keep them from mixing, and several kinds may occur in the same area without interbre
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