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title: "All About Birds: Purple Finch"
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## Purple Finch

## ![Purple_Finch4_Gregg_Kendall_Ontario_2012](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-273955416.jpg)

 © Gregg Kendall

| ![what_they_eat](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-219239072.jpg?width=106&height=182&name=file-219239072.jpg) | **What they eat:** Purple Finches eat mainly seeds of coniferous trees and elms, tulip poplars, maples, and others. They visit tube, hopper, and platform feeders, looking for black oil sunflower seeds or millet. |
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| ![how_they_sound](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-218885748.jpg?width=194&height=182&name=file-218885748.jpg "how_they_sound") | **Where they live:** These birds prefer cool evergreen forests in the summer and open fields in the winter. They are found in the eastern half of the U.S. and southeast Canada. |
| **![where_they_live](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-219130301.jpg?width=93&height=79&name=file-219130301.jpg "where_they_live")** | **Did you know? **The Purple Finch uses its big beak and tongue to crush seeds, to get at nectar without eating an entire flower, and to reach seeds buried inside fruit. |
| **![did_you_know](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-218887603.jpg?width=118&height=87&name=file-218887603.jpg)** | **How they sound: **The song of the Purple Finch sounds like a slurred warbling and their typical call note is a short, low *tek*. |

 

**![sound](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-230263965.jpg?width=20&height=16&name=file-230263965.jpg) [Listen to the Purple Finch](https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/hs-fs/hub/95627/file-290318918.mp3?hsLang=es).**

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**To learn more, visit the Cornell Lab's free website: [www.allaboutbirds.org.](http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Purple_Finch/id)**

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