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Re: Purple Finches and Picket Road Goose
- To: Russell-Roberson <Russell-Roberson@nc.rr.com>, carolinabirds@duke.edu (CAROLINA BIRDS)
- Subject: Re: Purple Finches and Picket Road Goose
- From: BILL HILTON JR Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History<hilton@hiltonpond.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:01:53 -0500
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- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Russell and Ruth Roberson wrote:
>1. We had three purple finches at our feeder last week, two males and
>one female. These are the only purple finches we have seen this year.
>We had only one female last year. We have the usual crowd of house finches.
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RUSSELL & RUTH . . .
Thanks for your posting to CarolinaBirds. Glad you finally got some
Purple Finches. :-)
I just wanted to mention that here in the Carolinas it is not
possible to know whether you have female Purple Finches at your
feeder. In February, the raspberry-colored birds are all adult
(after-second-year) males, but brown birds may be second-year males
or females of any age.
In House Finches, all brown birds in February are indeed females, and
red ones are males.
For a discussion and photos of these differences see
http://www.hiltonpond.org/PubFinchNABB94Abstract.html .
With best wishes,
BILL
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