CERRILLOS HILLS HISTORIC PARK

Carduelis tristis

State bird of Iowa, New Jersey, and Washington.

Carpodocus cassinii

Size: 6" - Finch

Male (left in photo): striped brown above; chest rosy; sides lightly streaked; crown red; cheeks striped brown.

Female (right in photo): heavy striped brown.

Song fluty warbling.

Coccothraustes vespertinus

Male pictured.

Carpodacus mexicanus

Size: 5.5" - Finch

Male: back, mid-crown, wings, tail brown; sides, belly white, streaked brown, two pale wing bars, wide eyebrow; throat, chest, rump rosy red.

Female: upper parts, head plain dull brown; dusky below, brown streaks.

Song musical warble.

Carduelis psaltria

Size: 4.5" - Finch

Male: back, cheeks, rump olive; crown, wings, tail black; wing has white patches; yellow below. Male black above.

Female greenish above, yellow below; two white wing bars.

Pinicola enucleator

Pine grosbeaks are rare and irregular visitor to the high Ponderosa forests of Sandia and possibly Ortiz during the winter months. They may breed elsewhere in the mountains of northern New Mexico. The Cerrillos Hills contain no suitable habitat for them.

Carduelis penis

Size: 5" - Finch

Very heavy striped brown above and below; wing with yellow stripe; bill thin, pointed.