No, you say? He’s really a…what? Purple Finch? Really!
But where’s the purple? What was the ornithologist smoking?
Nevertheless, here you are. Meet Perseus the Purple Finch! A male of the species Haemorhous purpureus (family Fringillidae) in all his Unenhanced Glory.
Looks red to me, but I’m just an ignorant, civilian Seed-Snatcher Shooter.
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Arthur P. Johnson is an award-winning creative professional with 30+ years of experience in advertising, product development, screen writing, and television and web production. He has loved photography all his adult life and now he's doing it all the time. It's exciting, exhausting and scary, and he wouldn't have it any other way.
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