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Finches are predominantly seed-eating songbirds. They typically have strong, stubby beaks. The basic plumage color is brownish, sometimes greenish; many have considerable amounts of black, while white plumage is generally absent except as wing-bars or other signaling marks. Bright yellow and red pigments are commonplace in this family, and thus blue structural colors are rather rare, as the yellow pigments turn the blue color into green.
Finches are typically inhabitants of well-wooded areas, but some can be found on mountains or even in deserts. True finches have a bouncing flight, alternating bouts of flapping with gliding on closed wings. Most sing well and several are commonly-seen cage birds; foremost among these is the domesticated Canary. The nests are basket-shaped and usually built in trees, more rarely in bushes, between rocks or in similar sheltered areas. Bird-predators of the finch include jays, magpies, kestrels, hawks and owls.
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