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House Finch

Haemorhous mexicanus
HOFI · Fringillidae · Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
Urban provisional · from species
466heard

The house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) is a bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is native to western North America and has been introduced to the eastern half of the continent and Hawaii. This species and the other "American rosefinches" are placed in the genus Haemorhous.

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mean confidence
9–10 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

466Detections
54Days heard
0.71Mean confidence
2 AugFirst heard
27 SepLast heard
12,108Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

29 Aug 27 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home464 detections
On outings2 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-22 07:15
9 s
0.98
2026-08-18 07:07
9 s
0.98
2026-09-08 07:03
9 s
0.97
2026-08-06 08:55
9 s
0.96
2026-09-20 07:39
9 s
0.96
2026-09-27 07:17
9 s
0.96
2026-08-18 07:07
9 s
0.96
2026-08-12 08:42
9 s
0.96
2026-08-21 06:53
9 s
0.96
2026-09-27 07:46
9 s
0.96
2026-08-30 08:20
9 s
0.96
2026-09-05 06:59
9 s
0.95
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 10:15am Archive