2/15/22 - PUFI - Purple Finch
I've only seen a purple finch once, during a Christmas vacation visit to Wells, VT. They breed in the coniferous forests of Canada for the most past, and irrupt south from time to time. Looking at the eBird abundance animation maps (which are awesome - I can spend a long time looking at the pictures there) it seems that they migrate south in Sept/October through New England, although I've never seen them. They also don't seem to have a re-migration back north. Wonder if that is a quirk of their irruption.
Purple finches have been outcompeted by house finches when they show up together. Also, it's the New Hampshire state bird!
By Cephas - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15362339
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