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The purple finch ( Haemorhous purpureus) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. It breeds in the northern United States, southern Canada, and the west coast of North America.
American rosefinch. The American rosefinches that form the genus Haemorhous are a group of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae. As the name implies ("haemo" means "blood" in Greek), various shades of red are characteristic plumage colors of this group. They are found throughout the North American continent .
List of true finch species The family Fringillidae are the "true" finches. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 240 species in the family, distributed among three subfamilies and 50 genera. Confusingly, only 78 of the species include "finch" in their common names, and several other families include species called finches. This list includes 18 extinct species, the ...
Sniffspot, which is basically the AirBnB of dog parks, went through their entire database of dog names and determined the top ten dog names for boy dogs and girl dogs of over 100,000 dogs.
List of animal names. Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on ...
In this list of birds by common name, a total of 10,976 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
The family Fringillidae includes numerous birds not called "finches" in their common names, including the crossbills, siskins, and waxbills. They eat mostly small seed, usually live in trees or shrubs but are able to get along well on the ground, and usually have rather dark plumage colors without camouflaging patterns. Some however show bright yellow to reddish hues.
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 392 tanager species in family Thraupidae, which are distributed among 107 genera. One species on the list, the St. Kitts bullfinch, is extinct. Confusingly, only 149 of the species are called "tanager"; another 108 are called "finch". [1] This family is found only in the New World, primarily in South and Middle America and the ...