Cassin's finch Cassin's finch Cassin's finch ("Haemorhous cassinii") is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. This species and the other "American rosefinches" are placed in the genus "Haemorhous". 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 coniferous forest in mountains of western
Laysan finch The female is duller than the male, with brown streaking. It is almost impossible to confuse the Laysan finch with any other bird in the field as it is the only passerine species found on the few islands it lives on. On its discovery the Laysan finch was an endemic resident of the small island of Laysan, along with the Laysan rail ("Porzana palmeri"), the Laysan honeycreeper ("Himatione fraithii"), the Laysan duck ("Anas laysanensis"), and the Laysan millerbird ("Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris"). Populations were introduced to several islands, including Pearl and Hermes Atoll, where the species persists, and Midway Atoll, where