It’s a rush when you can confidently recognize an elusive or hard-to-identify bird ... photo), while purple finches don’t. A female house finch has a fairly plain brown face, while a female ...

The brown body has distinct, blurry streaking above and below. She lacks the distinct pale eyebrow found on the male. Identifying the male and female house from other Carpodacus finches requires care.

House finches ... that purple finches are purple in color, but they’re actually not. Instead, males are dark red throughout ...