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Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
FOR THE BIRDS
March 1992
By
Helen O'Shea
With the sunny weather and melting snow there are fewer birds around local feeders. Still, since February, there are more Purple Finches in Louisbourg. Male Purple Finches are not purple but are more raspberry in colour. Females are brown and resemble sparrows. Purple Finches like to eat sunflower seeds and niger seed. Occasional Purple Finches can be heard singing in February, but they warble most loudly in April and May. Purple Finches prefer coniferous trees, especially spruce, when it comes to nesting time which begins in late May. The four or five greenish-blue eggs are incubated by the female for two weeks. Both the male and female feed the young. Young Purple Finches are fed regurgitated seeds. After fourteen days they leave the nest and go on feeding trips with their parents eating seeds, insects and berries. During their first year, both young males and females look like the adult female. By the second fallthe males have the raspberry coloured plummage.
Helen O’Shea
Extracted from © The Seagull, Helen O'Shea, For the Birds