I've written about quite a few different dramatic-looking finches here in the past: the Zebra Finch in 2022, the Saffron Finch that same year, the Strawberry Finch in 2023, and the Red-billed Firefinch last year. In the US, House Finches are so very common that it's hard to imagine this array of finch diversity.
I would love to see these in the wild (they live in Australia), but they can also be seen in cages, like a couple of the birds we've already met this Birdtober. I read that they fly in long lines, with their bright red rumps very visible.
Row of burning coals,
of bright, glittering diamonds,
little birds in flight
©Ruth Bowen Hersey
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