FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: house finch v purple finch

["Millie" <kymillie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to ALL of you for your Emails regarding the finches.  I feel sure all of 
mine are house finches but now will look more closely. Perhaps a stray purple 
finch will appear.

I remember it was in the late 70's or early 80's that I first saw these finches 
here in Louisville. A co-worker pointed them out and  described them as "dipped 
in raspberry juice," same as some of you did. However, I think they were house 
finches then because she said they had just gotten to this area of the country, 
after  domestic finches were released on the East Coast somewhere........ Millie
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  From: RESEARCH Hilton Pond 
  To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: Millie ; UTLAW97@xxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:41 PM
  Subject: [birdky] Re: house finch v purple finch



  MILLIE & JEFF . . .

  There's no single marking that distinguishes these two Carpodacus 
  finches, but they can be told apart with a little attention to detail.

  See the photos and text linked from 
  http://www.hiltonpond.org/PubFinchNABB94Abstract.html

  Happy Birding!

  BILL

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  >I  would like to know distinctive markings between house and purple 
  >finch. I think all of mine are house finches but would like to be 
  >sure.  Is there ONE marking that tells them apart easily?.
  >
  >Millie Farmer
  >Louisville, KY
  >
  >----- Original Message -----
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  >To: <mailto:birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:14 PM
  >Subject: [birdky] house finch v purple finch
  >
  >The birds on my feeders that everyone around me has been calling 
  >purple finches appear to me to be house finches based on wing 
  >markings.  I have yet to see anything i think is a purple finch. Is 
  >one more common that the other, or just everyone who knows a little 
  >assumes they are all purple finches.
  >Jeff Grimes
  >Woodlawn, Tn (home) & Clarksville, TN (work)

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