Croching finch is a photograph by Debbie Portwood which was uploaded on November 7th, 2012.
Croching finch
Finch crouches as he has his eye on something and is set to fly! Bokeh,decorations and gentle texture add a nice background. Beautiful for any wall... more
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Croching finch
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Debbie Portwood
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Photograph - Phototography
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Finch crouches as he has his eye on something and is set to fly! Bokeh,decorations and gentle texture add a nice background. Beautiful for any wall of your hme or office, or even a beautiful greeting card. Thank you so much for viewing. You will find a very wide variaty of work, for photographs to digital and original works of art in the several galleries of Debbie Portwood.............(Wikipedia - This is a moderately-sized finch. Adult birds are 12.5 to 15 cm (4.9 to 5.9 in) and span 20 to 25 cm (7.9 to 9.8 in). Body mass can vary from 16 to 27 g (0.56 to 0.95 oz), with an average weight of 21 g (0.74 oz). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 7 to 8.4 cm (2.8 to 3.3 in), the tail is 5.7 to 6.5 cm (2.2 to 2.6 in), the culmen is 0.9 to 1.1 cm (0.35 to 0.43 in) and the tarsus is 1.6 to 1.8 cm (0.63 to 0.71 in).[2] Adults have a long, square-tipped brown tail and are a brown or dull-brown color across the back with some shading into deep gray on the wing feathers. Breast and belly feathers may be streaked; the flanks usually are. In most cases, adult males' heads, necks and shoulders are reddish. This color sometimes extends to the belly and down the back, between the wings. Male coloration varies in intensity with the seasons and is derived from the berries and fruits in its diet. As a result, the colors range from pale straw-yellow through bright orange (both rare) to deep, intense red. Adult females have brown upperparts and streaked underparts. Their song is a rapid, cheery warble or a variety of chirps.................Range and habitat - These birds are mainly permanent residents throughout their range; some northern and eastern birds migrate south. Their breeding habitat is urban and suburban areas in eastern North America as well as various semi-open areas in the west from southern Canada to northern Florida and the Mexican state of Oaxaca; the population in central Chiapas may be descended from escaped cagebirds....Originally only a resident of Mexico and the southwestern United States, they were introduced to eastern North America in the 1940s. The birds were sold illegally in New York City as "Hollywood Finches", a marketing artifice. To avoid prosecution under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, vendors and owners released the birds. They have become naturalized; in largely unforested land across the Eastern U.S., they have displaced the native Purple Finch and even the non-native House Sparrow. In 1870, or before, they were introduced into Hawaii and are known abundant on all its islands.
There are estimated to be anywhere from 267 million to 1.7 billion individuals across North America. )
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Randy Rosenberger
Gorgeous house finch capture, Debbie! Love the crouching avian and the colors and detail, and also the background and framing! Lovely imagery! f/v