# Identify this Wild Ohio Bird Please
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 7, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379 "2005-06-07T23:53:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379/1 "2005-06-07T23:53:09Z")
I don’t have a pic, sorry. But it’s in Northwest Ohio and there are three of them at my birdfeeder now. They have a lovely red body and head–not robin-red, but more cardinal red with an orange undertone–and brown wings. The feathers on the wings appear to be edged in white, and the beaks are fairly short in relation to the head. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379/2 "2005-06-07T23:56:14Z")
Could [this](http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i5070id.html) be it?
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379/3 "2005-06-08T00:02:36Z")
Hmm, the wings on the “immature female” picture on the bottom right look close, but imagine everything that is gold in that picture being red. Also, the tail seems a bit less full than the pictured bird and the beak is not as thin.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379/4 "2005-06-08T00:27:17Z")
Short beak, red with brown wings; could be a [Red house Finch](http://grd-jerry.home.att.net/red_finch_photo_pic.html).
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-wild-ohio-bird-please/307379/5 "2005-06-08T01:08:38Z")
That’s it exactly, thanks!