Vol. 54 // This Blushing Finch is Crowned in Clouds 🏔️ -- and save 20% on Cartons!

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Bird of the Week: The Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Photo by Tom Benson (Flickr)

Found in western North America

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Don’t underestimate this blush-bellied bird: Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches are built tough to thrive atop some of the highest mountains in North America, from the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the slopes of Denali. Blizzards are snow problem for them—they forage for seeds on snowfields and tundras and breed on remote mountains where few humans are found. As for their nests, all they need is a small space in a cliff’s crevice, on a slopeside boulder, or even in a hole in the side of a building. Yetis are no match for these fearless flitters.

Fun fact: There are four species of Rosy-Finches: Asian, Gray-crowned, Brown-capped, and Black.

Photo by John Matthews (Flickr)

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