| Male House Finches (above) vary in color from pale yellow to bright red. They are slim sparrow-like birds. Females are streakey brown and look very much like sparrows. Both sexes have a stout conical bill, dark eyes and pale brown wing bars and a square-tipped tail.
The House Finch is an abundant bird often associated closely with human habitation. It is a gregarious bird, forming loose flocks in breeding season, and flocks that may number into the hundreds in the winter.
Photo © Roy Harvey
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