House Finch by photosynthesis

Photography • Animals • posted on Apr 16, 2014

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This colorful house finch was perched on the bird feeder on our deck, but when I approached the window with my camera, he flew off. Fortunately, he only flew as far as a branch on the oak tree directly behind the bird feeder, which gave me an even better shot than I would have gotten on the feeder... Factoids about the house finch from Wikipedia: "Originally only a resident of Mexico and the southwestern United States, they were introduced to eastern North America in the 1940s. The birds were sold illegally in New York City as "Hollywood Finches", a marketing artifice. To avoid prosecution under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, vendors and owners released the birds. They have become naturalized; in largely unforested land across the Eastern U.S., they have displaced the native Purple Finch and even the non-native House Sparrow. In 1870, or before, they were introduced into Hawaii and are known abundant on all its islands. There are estimated to be anywhere from 267 million to 1.7 billion individuals across North America." Please zoom.