Finches & Allies

Look for The pine grosbeak is a large, stout finch with a short, heavy bill and a long, black tail. […]

Look For This handsome bird is mostly grayish. Adult male has a black face, yellow breast, and large yellow patches

Look For The lesser goldfinch is so named because it is our smallest goldfinch (4 ½ inches long). Adult male

Look For White-winged crossbills are named for their best field mark (white wing bars). Red crossbills lack any white in

Look For Adult has gray head, black forehead and throat, and varying amounts of rose in the body and wing

Look For The lark bunting is 7 inches in length. Breeding-plumaged adult males are nearly all black with a large

Look For Most of us don’t get to see the male snow bunting in its snowiest attire—its pure white-and-black breeding

Look For Few of us get to see the male Lapland longspur in his full breeding glory, with his black

Look For Looking like a miniature meadowlark with its black V on a yellow breast, the breeding-plumaged male dickcissel has

Length: 5.25 inches Wingspan: 9 inches Look for The smallest of our red finches (5 inches long), the common redpoll

Look For The bright canary-yellow and black plumage of the breeding male American goldfinch has earned this species the nickname

Look For The striking male evening grosbeak is a large, mustard-yellow finch with a big pale bill and a gold