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House Finch

Carpodacus mexicanus

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in all 100 counties, across 3 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
3
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 3

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

1 of 3

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
Year-roundDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Disturbed, Non-specific; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

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

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 (17)

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

Elsewhere in the South (4)
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Year-round.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern 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 North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in all 100 counties.

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 208

Plant genera in its diet records (26)
  • Brassica Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Amaranthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Ambrosia Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Amsinckia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Anthemis Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Calandrinia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Carex Seeds. 1 diet record. 148 native plants in North Carolina
  • Centaurea Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Claytonia Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Croton Seeds. 1 diet record. 4 native plants in North Carolina
  • Deinandra Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Erodium Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Geranium Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Helianthus Seeds. 1 diet record. 16 native plants in North Carolina
  • Madia Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Oxalis Seeds. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Raphanus Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Rumex Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Senecio Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Silene Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Silybum Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Solanum Seeds. 1 diet record. 2 native plants in North Carolina
  • Spergula Seeds. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in North Carolina
  • Stellaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina
  • Toxicodendron Seeds. 1 diet record. 3 native plants in North Carolina

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 40

Plants 231

All of forest edges and thickets in North Carolina

Tree plantations and managed pine

Birds 31

Plants 2

All of tree plantations and managed pine in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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