Can any of my birding friends help me with this? I've been pretty proud of myself with all that I have taught myself in that last year about birds. One thing I have trouble with is distinguishing between House and Purple Finches. I'm confident that I have a LOT of House Finches around but this guy had so much red on him that I was wondering if it might be a Purple Finch. Or maybe he's a House Finch that ate a lot of cherries. What do you think? And how do you tell the difference?
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Purple finches color is suppose to be more raspberry in color according to my bird book - does that help? LOL! I have a hard time w/ this one too - I always have to see them together.
Whatever finch he is, he is beautiful.
My guess is House Finch.He sure is pretty whatever his name.I read once that a Purple Finch looked like it had been dipped in wine,therefor they are more wine colored.Don't know if any of this helps any.:)
Blessings,Ruth
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