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CONICAL BILLED SONG BIRDS
Finch Family Gallery
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeiformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Haemorhous
Species: Cassinii
Length: 6 1/2 inches

Range
Most of southern Canada during summer breeding and all of the Eastern US and the West Coast during winter non-breeding times.

Habitat
Purple finches breed mainly in coniferous forest or mixed coniferous and deciduous woods. These finches can be found in a wide variety of habitats during winter including shrub lands, old fields forest edges and backyards.

Description
The male is a delicate pink-red on the head and breast mixing with brown on the back and cloudy white on the belly.
Females have not red but are coarsely streaked below with strong facial marking including a whitish eye stripe and a dark line down the side of the throat.
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Conical Billed Song Birds Purple Finch
(m3an-chb-soco-152pu-2010-0225.0837) Purple Finch
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