Families: Fringillidae, Passeridae, Ploceidae, Estrilididae
Finches are small to medium sized birds with pointed wings, notched tails, stout bills, and distinctive flight calls. Female finches can be quite plain while males can be quite colorful.
Title: Male House Finch eating a crabapple
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/8/2022
Title: Bright male House Finch in northern Utah
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/8/2022
Title: Foraging female House Finch
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/28/2022
Title: American Goldfinch and ripe serviceberries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/7/2022
Title: American Goldfinch female perching on a thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/20/2022
Title: Female American Goldfinch perched on a thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/20/2022
Title: Male American Goldfinch and a bright blue sky
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2022
Title: American Goldfinch perched on a big stick
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/9/2022
Title: Adult Pine Siskin in spring sagebrush
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Title: Adult Pine Siskin in sage
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Title: Pine Siskin perched in sagebrush
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Title: Pine Siskin foraging in sage
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Title: Pine Siskin on top of sagebrush
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2022
Title: Male American Goldfinch in spring
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/11/2021
Title: Male House Finch in front of a red barn
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: Orange variant male House Finch in autumn
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: Orange variant male House Finch eating greasewood seeds
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: Orange variant male House Finch
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: Adult American Goldfinch perched on a greasewood in autumn
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: American Goldfinches in winter plumage perched on a greasewood
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: Autumn male House Finch perched on a greasewood
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: American Goldfinch in winter plumage
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/4/2021
Title: Adult Pine Siskin on a Musk Thistle close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/7/2021
Title: Adult male American Goldfinch in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/29/2021
Title: Male American Goldfinch perched on a chokecherry tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/29/2021
Title: Spring male American Goldfinch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2021
Title: Spring female Cassin’s Finch next to a creek
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Title: American Goldfinch perched on a leafless sumac
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 11/22/2020