house finch
linnet
Carpodacus mexicanus

At this very moment, a female house finch is warbling outside my window.

But very little data is available about the nesting habits of house finches.

Studying an epidemic in house finches could be used as a model for humans.

There is concern that conjunctivitis could spread to the house finch's western population.

An example of sexual polymorphism determined by environmental conditions exists in the house finch.

After laborious searching, she figured out what it was: a common house finch.

More likely, they are house finches, a similar but distinct species, introduced into New York in the 1940's.

I have city friends with house finches feasting on the weeds in their window boxes.

By contrast, the house finch changes color completely with shifts in pigment consumption.

"That's either a Japanese white-eye or a European house finch," she said, looking up and to her left.