gaetanchevalier 5 Posted June 12, 2005 Male Purple Finch ( Carpodacus purpureus - Roselin pourpre) Link to comment
davidorea 1 Posted June 13, 2005 Very nice capture, Gaetan. Excellent colors and DOF. Link to comment
gaetanchevalier 5 Posted June 21, 2005 Thank you Daniel for your informative comment. This is appreciated. Link to comment
tomas_telensky 0 Posted June 22, 2005 It is really hard to distinguish. Clip from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bow/houfin/: "...Because of color variabilities, the pattern of red coloring (light red, orange, or yellow in some birds) rather than the actual hue distinguishes House Finch males from their similar cousins, the Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus) and Cassin's Finch (C. cassinii). Purple and Cassin's finches lack the strong facial pattern of a House Finch, which is created by the sharp separation of the "headband" from the throat by a brown cheek patch; the backs of Purple and Cassin's Finches are tinged reddish with brown streaks. The reddish color of these species' throat and breast diffuses into a largely unstreaked white lower breast and belly, whereas the male House Finch's red throat and upper breast are more sharply separated from the white lower breast and belly, both of which are strongly streaked with brown." I think the breast and belly are not as sharply separated. But the brown cheek patch is apparent there a little. Link to comment
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