page_title: List of birds of New Jersey
section_title: Finches, euphonias, and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of New Jersey / Finches, euphonias, and allies
caption_attribution_description: A male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) perched on a wooden rail. Photo taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 in Johnston County, North Carolina, USA.
context_page_description: This list of birds of New Jersey includes species credibly documented in the U.S. state of New Jersey and accepted by the New Jersey Bird Records Committee as of October 2019. There are 480 species and two species pairs included in the official list. Six additional species of uncertain origin are also included in this page.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in New Jersey as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Rare or accidental - Review List; birds that if observed require more comprehensive documentation than regularly seen species
  Review List, in part - "Identifiable form/race/subspecies, seen from shore, etc." per the NJBRC
  Extinct - a recent species that no longer exists
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Fringillidae
  Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well. Eleven confirmed and two "PU" species have been recorded in New Jersey.
  Common chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs (PU)
  Brambling, Fringilla montifringilla (R)
  Evening grosbeak, Coccothraustes vespertinus
  Pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator (R)
  House finch, Haemorhous mexicanus (native to the southwestern U.S.; introduced in the east)
  Purple finch, Haemorhous purpureus
  Common redpoll, Acanthis flammea
  Hoary redpoll, Acanthis hornemanni (R)
  Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
  White-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera
  Eurasian siskin, Spinus spinus (PU)
  Pine siskin, Spinus pinus
  American goldfinch, Spinus tristis
caption: House finch
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