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The Purple Finch, Carpodacus purpureus, is a small finch.

Adults have a short forked brown tail and brown wings. Adult males are raspberry red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back is streaked. Adult females have light brown upperparts and white underparts with dark brown streaks throughout; they have a white line on the face above the eye.

Their breeding habitat is coniferous and mixed forest in Canada and the northeastern United States,as well as various wooded areas along the U.S. Pacific coast. They nest on a horizontal branch or in a fork of a tree.

Birds from northern Canada migrateLong-distance land bird migration Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern he to the southern United States; other birds are permanent residents.

These birds forage in trees and bushes, sometimes in ground vegetation. They mainly eat seeds, berries and insects.

This bird has been displaced from some habitat by House SparrowHouse Sparrow : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Passeriformes : Passeridae Passer domesticus Binomial name Passer domesticus Linnaeus, 1758) The House Sparrow Passer domesticus occurs naturally in most of Europe and Asia, though it is replaced by allied forms and then the introduction of House FinchHouse Finch Scientific Classification : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Passeriformes : Fringillidae : Carpodacus pulcherrimus Binomial name ''Carpodacus pulcherrimus Muller, 1776) The House Finch Carpodacus pulcherrimus is a medium-sized finch. Adults havees in the east.

This is the state bird of New HampshireNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the United States (U. postal abbreviation NH , named for the English county of Hampshire. New Hampshire is called the "Granite State" because it has numerous granite quarries, although that industry ha.