Purple Finch

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Song recorded in Dillsboro, North Carolina - May 2008

Among the small birds of the forest, Purple Finches are larger than chickadees, nuthatches and kinglets.  Maile Purple Finches are delicate pink-red on the breast and head mixing with brown on the back and white on the belly.  Female Purple Finches are not red, but have course streaks below with a white eyestripe and dark line down the side of the throat.  They breed in coniferous forests or mixed deciduous and coniferous woods.  In the winter you can find them in backyards, old fields and forest edges.  They love backyard feeders that contain sunflower seeds.

The song I recorded above was very difficult to identify.  I recorded it from a vacation cabin window that looked out over thick woods that led up a mountain slope.