Finches Seen In North America

Cassin’s Finch

Scientific Name: Haemorhous cassinii
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The Cassin’s Finch is a small songbird with peaked head and short-medium tail. It is very similar to the Purple Finch, but is slightly larger with a larger bill and subtle plumage variations.

House Finch  

Scientific Name: Haemorhous mexicanus
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The House Finch is the most widely distributed songbird in North America. It is native to western North America, and has been introduced to the eastern half of the continent and Hawaii.

Purple Finch

Scientific Name: Haemorhous purpureus
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The Purple Finch is closely related to the Cassin's Finch and the House Finch. It is a medium-sized finch, common throughout much of the northeast, Canadian provinces, and the Pacific coast.

Saffron Finch

Scientific Name: Sicalis flaveola
Conservation Status: Least Concern (Population stable)

The Saffron Finch is a bright yellow songbird of South America. It is common in open and semi-open areas in lowlands outside the Amazon Basin. 

Cuban Bullfinch

Scientific Name: Melopyrrha nigra
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The Cuban Bullfinch is a songbird species of the genus Melopyrrha. Recent studies have shown it to be part of the tanager family. Therein, it belongs to the lineage of tholospizan "finches", which also includes the famous Darwin's finches. It is found on and endemic to Cuba. Wikipedia

Eurasian Bullfinch

Scientific Name: Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Conservation Status: Least Concern (Population decreasing)

The Eurasian Bullfinch also known as Common Bullfinch or simply Bullfinch is a bulky bull-headed, small bird that breeds across Europe and temperate Asia. 

Greater Antillean Bullfinch

Scientific Name: Loxigilla violacea
Conservation Status: Least Concern (Population stable)

The Greater Antillean Bullfinch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in The Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. Wikipedia

Common Chaffinch 

Scientific Name: Fringilla coelebs
Conservation Status: Least Concern (Population stable)

The Common Chaffinch or simply the Chaffinch is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family. It breeds in much of Europe, across the Palearctic to Siberia and in northwestern Africa.

European Greenfinch

Scientific Name: Chloris chloris
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The European Greenfinch or simply Greenfinch is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is widespread throughout Europe, north Africa and Southwest Asia. It is mainly resident, but some northernmost populations migrate further south. Wikipedia

American Goldfinch

Scientific Name: Spinus tristis
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The American Goldfinch is a small North American migratory bird in the finch family. It ranges from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter.

Lawrence’s Goldfinch  

Scientific Name: Spinus lawrencei
Conservation Status: Least Concern 

The Lawrence's Goldfinch is among the most attractive North American songbirds that breed in California and Baja California and winters in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Its name commemorates the American ornithologist Georges Newbold Lawrence. 

Lesser Goldfinch

Scientific Name: Spinus psaltria
Conservation Status: Least Concern 

The Lesser Goldfinch is a very small songbird of the Americas. Together with its relatives the American Goldfinch and Lawrence's Goldfinch, it forms the American goldfinches clade in the genus Spinus sensu stricto. Wikipedia

Hawfinch

Scientific Name: Spinus psaltria
Conservation Status: Least Concern

The Hawfinch is the biggest bird of the Fringillidae Family. Its closest living relatives are the Evening Grosbeak from North America and the Hooded Grosbeak from Central America and Mexico. The Hawfinc breeds across Europe and temperate Asia.

Common Rosefinch 

Scientific Name: Carpodacus erythrinus
Conservation Status: Least Concern (Population decreasing)

The Common Rosefinch also known as the Scarlet Rosefinch is the most widespread and common rosefinch in Asia and Europe. It is a medium-sized, dumpy finch with a stubby bill.