house finch

American  

noun

1. a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.

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Etymology

Origin of house finch

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

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house finch

As of this writing, it’s logged 194 house finch visits, 83 California towhee drop-bys, 5 squirrel sorties and a lone pine siskin pop in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

For example, the house finch almost always dominates the purple finch, and the purple finch almost always dominates the dark-eyed junco, but when house finch and junco face off directly, the junco often dominates.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021

In March 2006, a couple of days after moving into a rented house in northern New Mexico, I found a dead male house finch, a small songbird, on the porch.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2018

They share descent with the largest animals ever to walk on land: the house finch outside your window is a tiny and beautifully adapted living dinosaur.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2018

It’s a house finch; it’s brown and yellow like they are, and female, I think.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon