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House Finch

Carpodacus mexicanus

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 48 of 64 parishes, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
48 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
48 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 4

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 4

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

Year-roundDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Year-roundWest Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

Year-roundEvergreen Plantation or Managed Pine
Other habitats in its models (16)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

In Louisiana 1

  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (2)
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
Midwest (1)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (12)
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Year-round.
  • Developed, High Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Year-round.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Year-round.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Year-round.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests here, in 48 of 64 parishes.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 147

Plant genera in its diet records (26)
  • Brassica Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Amsinckia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Anthemis Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Calandrinia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 84 native plants in Louisiana
  • Centaurea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Claytonia Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Croton Seeds. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Louisiana
  • Deinandra Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Erodium Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Geranium Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Helianthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 16 native plants in Louisiana
  • Madia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Raphanus Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Rumex Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Senecio Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Silene Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Silybum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in Louisiana
  • Spergula Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Stellaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Toxicodendron Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 153

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 90

Plants 131

All of forest edges and thickets in Louisiana

Prairies and grasslands

Birds 69

Plants 160

All of prairies and grasslands in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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