House Finch

Haemorhous mexicanus

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Haemorhous
eBird Code
houfin

Subspecies (11)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus amplus

    Guadalupe Island (off Baja California)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus centralis

    central Mexican plateau (Guanajuato, Querétaro, and adjacent states)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus coccineus

    mountains of southwestern Mexico (southern Nayarit and western Zacatecas to western Michoacán)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus frontalis

    southwestern Canada through USA and northwestern Mexico

  • Haemorhous mexicanus griscomi

    southwestern Mexico (Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus mcgregori

    formerly San Benito and Cedros islands (off Baja California); extinct

  • Haemorhous mexicanus mexicanus

    southern central Mexican plateau (eastern Michoacán to Hidalgo and Oaxaca)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus potosinus

    Rio Grande Valley, southern Texas (USA) to Chihuahua and southwestern Tamaulipas (northern Mexico)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus roseipectus

    southern Mexico (southern Puebla and Valley of Oaxaca)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus ruberrimus

    southern Baja California (northwestern Mexico)

  • Haemorhous mexicanus sonoriensis

    southern Sonora, southwestern Chihuahua, and northern Sinaloa (west-central Mexico)

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.