Female House Finch Nest

Female house finch nesting joey c.
Female house finch nest. Occasionally house finches use the abandoned nests of other birds. Female house finch incubating 3 eggs on a nest live from silicon beach california. This is due to the differences in regional diets. To line the inside of the nest for the baby birds the female house finch uses feathers and other similar fibers.
House finch call description. House finches nesting. Overall width of the nest is 3 7 inches with the inside cup 1 3 inches across and up to 2 inches deep. House finches have also been known to build their nests in conifer trees hanging planters and even in the old nests of other birds.
A house finch s nest is a cup made of fine stems leaves rootlets thin twigs string wool and feathers with similar but finer materials for the lining. House finch nest 5 weeks complete documentary duration. Other materials that may be thrown in with the grasses are leaves and twigs. Thanks for watching and welcome to enjoy the interesting video about male house finch feeding female and it s chicks in the nest.
You can enjoy in this video a male house finch. House finches are monogamous one male to one female. The male house finch has a length of about 5 1 2 inches with red on the head upper breast and flanks. The nest of a house finch is usually built by the female bird.
The female will incubate four or five eggs over a period of two weeks while the male brings her food. The mite pellonyssus reedi is often found on house finch nestlings particularly for nests later in the season. The nesting period of house finches is quite protracted march to august. Unsubscribe from joey c.
The female has a uniformly brown streaked head with broad brown streaking on the breast and. The building of a nest may take as. House finches build nests in a variety of sites including ivy growing on buildings and trees and man made objects such as window ledges. She makes use of grasses to form the main structure of the nest usually resembling a shallow cup.
Cute mother and handsome red headed father have built a nice nest right next to a 60 watt light bulb. This is because they lay more than one brood of eggs. The house finch may be infected by a number of parasites including plasmodium relictum and mycoplasma gallisepticum which caused the population of house finches in eastern north america to crash during the 1990s. In some regions the color red may be replaced with yellow or orange.
House finches nesting in a porch light.