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House Finch -
(Carpodacus mexicanus) 

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Identification

  • Small songbird
  • Male has brown cap, brown streaked back, orangish-red breast, rump and forehead heavy brown streaks on sides and belly
  • Female lacks red coloring, face rather plain
  • 6" (15 cm.) 

Habitat

  • Residential areas

Additional Information

  • Increasingly common resident
  • Native to western US
  • Eastern populations spread from released
         caged birds in New York in the 1940's
  • A common bird of cities and suburbs

Comparable Species

Close up of a male House Finch

Female House finch sitting on grape vines

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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