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Purple Finch

Haemorhous purpureus

Classification

Class
Aves

The purple finch (Haemorhous purpureus) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. It breeds in the northern United States, southern Canada, and the west coast of North America. Taxonomy The purple finch was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1,024,632Canada · 480,233France · 311Mexico · 8United Kingdom · 1