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oldguy52@techhub.social ("oldguy52 - resist, live, love") wrote:

Striving to keep PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) in the face of the immense disconnects from reality of the US regime of incompetence, corruption and delusion. Birds help a bit.

Today a Purple Finch (female), a common winter visitor in our area. These can be difficult to see and to ID. My mantra is start with the bill, look for the eye-patch and eyebrow plus mottling. As always Merlin App is a great help.

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A fairly stout brown bird with a short strong (finch) bill for seeds. It has a nice eyebrow and an eye patch. The chest and underpants are mottled brown and light tan. The wings appear darker brown but with some mottling. This is a female Purple Finch. I rarely see, or more likely recognize the males. There are two subspecies, so this is likely the eastern. Purple Finch - Haemorhous purpureus purpureus Best sources of information https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Purple_Finch/overview https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/purfin/cur/introduction Wootton, J. T. (2020). Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.purfin.01 Birds of the World is a subscription, worth every penny, and is something I have come to love; rather like Wolfram Alpha.