House Finch, Life Histories of North American Birds, A. C. Bent. Contributed by Robert S. WoodsPublished in 1. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 2. Part 1 2. 90 3. The house finch, more familiarly known as the linnet, is a. To the average city dweller, its. Most numerous about towns and cultivated lands, this species is. However. competent observers agree that the sight of a house finch is one. In California and New Mexico the species is. California, at least, the mountains are not a favored habitat, and. In the United States its centers of. Dormer North American Series Patch Testing' title='Dormer North American Series Patch Testing' />Pacific slope of central. California, but its natural range extends north to. Washington and East into Wyoming, Colorado, and western Texas. In recent years extensions of territory have occurred. Ralph C. Tate 1. Oklahoma Panhandle, approximately 4. Ian Mc. Taggard Cowan 1. 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The house finch has not only expanded the boundaries of its. In. reporting on a visit to the Farallone Islands near San Francisco. Milton S. Ray 1. Rock Wrens long defended title of being. Were it not for the grove of friendly. North American Series Patch' title='North American Series Patch' />In his comprehensive account of the species in Colorado, Dr. W. H. Bergtold 1. Previous to the advent of the English. F-86K-USAF-Series-Aircraft-1F-86k-1-FM.jpg' alt='North American Series Patch' title='North American Series Patch' />Sparrow in Denver about 1. Denver was this. finch. Before the present extensive settlement of Colorado, the. House Finch was, so far as one can gather from the reports of the. He estimated the population of house finches in. Denver at the time of writing to be at least four for each of the. That the adaptation of the species to civilized environments. Charles E. H. Aiken Aiken and Warren, 1. I. found none nesting in those early days in Canon City, Pueblo. Colorado Springs, or Denver, but at Trinidad, in July, 1. I. first saw them utilizing human habitations. It was many years. When I returned to Colorado, in. December, 1. 89. 5, after some years absence, I found them frequenting. Courtship. In the spring the. Ralph Hoffmann 1. Vaio Sd Card Driver Download there. At the. height of the breeding season the male hops about the indifferent. The female in the height of the mating period utters a few notes. Various writers have referred to courtship feeding. Anders H. and Anne. Anderson 1. 94. 4 state that at Tucson, No courtship feeding. The nest building is. The male follows, singing frequently. At intervals both of the birds. However, in the following. Laurence M. Huey 1. San Diego, the date mentioned is. On the afternoon of March 1. It was rather. unusual, so I watched them carefully and observed the male feed. His actions were much. At the moment the. After the performance was over, they both ate freely of the. Bergtold 1. 91. 3 suspects that this species mates. This is a question which. Nesting. The greater part of the. April and May, but are continued in. June and July. In one of the earliest detailed. Charles A. Keeler 1. During the month of February the males sing more or less. By the middle of March they are nearly all mated and. During the early part of April both sexes are busy in constructing. Extreme dates for fresh eggs in southwestern California as. George Willett 1. March 2. 2 and August 1. Although Philbrick Smith 1. Contra Costa County, Calif., on November 2. California is confined rather closely to the four months first. While Bergtold 1. April and May to be. Colorado than in. California, notwithstanding the colder winters Cold weather. On the other hand, pairs of. House Finches, unquestionably mated, have been observed looking. September to February. The earliest active nest. January 3. 0, and the latest. July 2. 3 while pairs have been noticed gathering material as late. December 2. 2, these attempts have been classed, however, by the. Nesting sites chosen by house finches are of such infinite. Any cavity or projection on a. About orange groves, the trees are often used as nesting. The. nests are not placed in the dense outer foliage, as is the custom. The usual height of the nests is from 5 to 7. Of the house finches of Santa Fe County, N. Mex., J. K. Jensen. They are not at all particular about a nesting. I have even seen. It is one of the few. At. the writers home in the San Gabriel Valley, where there is no. Opuntia tunicata, at one time contained four. Beauty And The Beast Movie Bluray more. From his observations in San. Diego County, Calif., H. W. Henshaw 1. 89. So tame and confiding have these pretty Finches become that. I am persuaded that the larger proportion of their nests are built. The pertinacity with which the House Finch clings to a. English Sparrow. I have known. Writing from San Jose, Calif., Ernest Adams 1. Experience has taught me that the House. Finches may nest anywhere. I have found them occupying nests of. I shall add hollow limbs. One bird entering the. Another. reared her brood in the deep cavity of a California Woodpecker in. The latter contained six eggs. F. C. Willard 1. 92. Roland Dt 1 V Drums Tutor. Arizona, but in this case the nest was placed. In the vicinity. of Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, states Howard Knight in an as. Colorado blue spruce appears to be. Knight also found a nest at the. Carolina poplar, where it was. Old oriole nests are frequently used by the house finches. Willard and others, and in California nests of the. Harold M. Holland 1. In two different years Wilson C. Hanna 1. 93. 3 found a. D. I. Shephardson 1. Arizona hooded. orioles, cliff swallows, and black phoebes. That the house finch. Alfred M. Bailey and. Robert J. Niedrach 1. Denver. Two instances of Western Robins and House Finches using the. In May, 1. 93. 4, we were informed that House Finches were feeding. Denver, Colorado. On investigation we found four half grown robins, two newly. There were two female finches. Unfortunately, however, the. We did not. determine whether the four remaining eggs hatched. All three adult. House Finches fed the young robins in the nest, and after the. On May 1. 5, 1. 93. Baileys home, 2. Colorado Blvd., Denver. The. young robins were nearly ready to leave the nest, and there was no. House Finches had laid eggs. However. both adult finches and robins fed the young regularly. The male. finch was particularly solicitous and would alight on a wire a few. The young robins left the nest May 2. The building of the nest is accomplished by the female with. The. materials used of course vary according to the resources of the. California were composed principally of slender, dry stems, often. In this particular locality the. Stylocline gnaphalioides. In outside. dimensions the nest is about 5 inches in diameter by 3 inches in. When new, the nest is neat and attractive in. Other nesting materials mentioned by Mrs. Florence Merriam. Bailey 1. 92. 8 as used in New Mexico are grass stems, plant fibers. Ray 1. 90. 4. describes a nest discovered in the Farallone Islands as. In the Point Lobos Reserve, on the coast of central. California, where the trees are hung with lichens, this material. Grinnell and. Linsdale 1. As proof. of the ability of the house finch to resort to new and. H. W. Henshaw 1. San Diego County.