[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This male House Finch was photographed at a feeder in the Texas Hill Country, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: April 1999)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This male House Finch was photographed at South Llano River State Park, Junction, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens + Nikkor TC20E II 2.0x Teleconverter (EFL=900mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: April 7, 2006)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This female House Finch was photographed at Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC20E II 2.0x Teleconverter (EFL=900mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: October 11, 2007)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This male House Finch was photographed at County Road NW 8000, Andrews County, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC20E II 2.0x Teleconverter (EFL=900mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: December 5, 2007)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This female House Finch was photographed at the Andrews Bird Viewing Trail, Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: October 13, 2009)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This female House Finch was photographed at Cave Creek Ranch, Portal, Arizona, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: June 24, 2013)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This male House Finch was photographed at Lake Lopez State Park, Arroyo Grande, California, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC17E II 1.7x Teleconverter on a Nikon D7000 camera. (Date: July 8, 2013)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9.5 in.]

This male House Finch was photographed at Brigantine NWR, New Jersey, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: August 1990)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 10 in.]

The male Purple Finch has a reddish strawberry tint on his head, upper breast, and rump. The lack of crisp streaking below helps to separate the male Purple Finch from the similar male House Finch. The Purple Finch breeds in mixed and coniferous woodlands, and coniferous trees in suburban areas throughout the northeastern US, across most of southern Canada, and down the Pacific coast. It winters throughout the eastern US, and in the Pacific coast states. This male "Interior" Purple Finch was photographed on the ground near a feeder at Tamarac NWR, Minnesota, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1992)