Cassin's Finch 370747 220987185 2008-06-22T15:06:14Z Luckas-bot 7320905 robot Adding: [[hu:Cassin-pirók]] {{Taxobox | name = Cassin's Finch | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | image = Cassin's Finch (male).jpg | image_caption = Male | image2 = Cassin's Finch (female).jpg | image2_caption = Female | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Passeriformes]] | familia = [[Fringillidae]] | genus = ''[[Carpodacus]]'' | species = '''''C. cassinii''''' | binomial = ''Carpodacus cassinii'' | binomial_authority = [[Spencer Fullerton Baird|Baird]], 1854 }} The '''Cassin's Finch''', ''Carpodacus cassinii'', is a medium-sized [[finch]] of the [[Rosefinch]] genus. Adults have a short forked brown tail and brown wings. They have a longer bill than the [[Purple Finch]]. Adult males are [[raspberry]] red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back and undertail are streaked. Adult females have light brown upperparts and light underparts with brown streaks throughout; their facial markings are less distinct than those of the female Purple Finch. Their breeding habitat is [[conifer]]ous forest in mountains of western [[North America]] as far south as northern [[New Mexico]] and [[Arizona]]; also [[Southern California|Southern]] [[California]] near [[Baja California]]. They nest in a large conifer. They move to lower elevations in winter. Birds from [[Canada]] [[bird migration|migrate]] south; other birds are permanent [[resident bird|resident]]s; non-breeding resident birds winter as far south as central interior [[Mexico]], the [[Mexican Plateau]]. Besides the 'breeding-residency' locale of southwest Canada, two [[disjunct distribution|disjunct]] breeding areas occur: the coastal mountains of extreme northern [[California]] and the [[Black Hills]] of [[South Dakota]]. These birds forage in trees, sometimes in ground vegetation. They mainly eat seeds, buds and berries, some insects. When not nesting, they often feed in small flocks. This bird was named after [[John Cassin]], who was a curator at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. ==References== {{commons|Carpodacus cassinii}} * {{IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=53467|title=Carpodacus cassinii|downloaded=11 May 2006}} Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened ==Further reading== ===Book=== * Hahn, T. P. 1996. ''Cassin’s Finch (Carpodacus cassinii)''. In ''The Birds of North America'', No. 240 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C. ===Thesis=== * Clemens DT. Ph.D. (1988). ''Studies on respiration, blood physiology and energy metabolism in rosy finches and house finches at sea level and high altitudes''. University of California, Los Angeles, United States -- California. * Keller ME. 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Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology. vol '''24''', no 5. p. 676-683. <!--see a good RangeMap/maps, lists etc at: "www.natureserve.org"(then 'InfoNatura')...the categories shown on the rangemap for the species are: "Permanent Resident", "Non-Breeding Resident", and "Breeding Resident"-(three (3) regions of breeding: one the [Black Hills], South Dakota)...Also shown: 4th category: "Vagrant" Dot-locales in southern Mexico......--> [[Category:Carpodacus]] [[Category:Birds of Canada|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Native birds of Southwestern Canada|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Native birds of the Western United States|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Birds of the Great Basin desert region|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Birds of the United States|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Birds of Mexico|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Birds of Baja Peninsula Mexico|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Native birds of Central Mexico|Finch, Cassin's]] [[Category:Western North American migratory birds|Finch, Cassin's]] [[bg:Чинка на Касин]] [[fr:Carpodacus cassinii]] [[hu:Cassin-pirók]] [[ja:ズアカマシコ]]