Featuring colorful plumage and a stout bill well-adapted for seed-eating, the house finch is a member of the true finch family (scientific name Fringillidae). You can often hear their bright and cheerful voices in the spring and summer even without seeing them.

Despite being almost exclusively herbivorous, the house finch is a bird that may accidentally eat insects while foraging for other food.
The color of the house finch will change based on what type of vegetation it consumes.
The house finch is one of the most common attractions at bird feeders. If one bird discovers the feeder, then it might bring the rest of the flock with it.
The house finch is a bird that maintains a large territory throughout most of the United States and Mexico, plus the southern parts of Canada. This species used to be entirely endemic to the west, but after it was introduced to the east in the 1940s, it quickly spread to the rest of the United States. It was also introduced into Hawaii in the late 19th century. The house finch is amenable to almost any environment within this range, including plains, forests, and deserts. It also coexists reasonably well with people.

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