I’ve been trying for several years to get good pictures that show the differences between purple finches and house finches, the two species of reddish finches that live in or migrate through Berks ...
Berkshire Eagle: Thom Smith: What's the difference between house finch, purple finch?
Berkshire Eagle: Thom Smith: Can you tell the difference between house and purple finches?
A male house finch feasts on Hawthorne berries. House finch females lack strong facial markings and are an overall grayish-brown color. Males vary in color from orange-red to a deeper purple-red, but ...
Thom Smith: Can you tell the difference between house and purple finches?
Female purple finches can also be told apart from female house finches by their distinct white eyebrow. We have house finches that recently built a nest under our roof overhang. Had it been a messy ...
Prior to the 1900s, house finches couldn’t be found in this area. Now the problem isn’t seeing them here — it’s identifying them. This is the time of year when many people are focused on bird feeding.
Post-Bulletin: Nature Nut: House finches now make nearly every state their home
Foster's Daily Democrat: Nature News: Purple finches stand out in the bird-feeder crowd
I think there is no better way to start a column about purple finches than to quote Roger Tory Peterson’s description of this bird, he called them “sparrows dipped in raspberry juice.” I saw my first ...
Claim to fame: House finches are among the more common birds Ozarks residents will find at their feeders in winter, particularly in urban areas. Besides being the most common, house finches are ...