30+ House Finch Orange Finch US. If a diet lacks certain pigments, then a house finch may end up orange or yellow instead of its usual red. House finches spend the entire year throughout the united states, except for parts of very northern united states and a strip right down the middle that includes places like the dakotas, nebraska and west texas.
When a bird is molting, its diet will determine the colors of its new feathers.
These finches are quite small birds. If a diet lacks certain pigments, then a house finch may end up orange or yellow instead of its usual red. A orange house finch in idaho. The house finch (haemorhous mexicanus) is a bird in the finch family fringillidae.