Best Known / Most Popular Finches in Aviculture
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Beautiful Firetail Finches (Stagonopleura bella)
Black Rosy Finch or Black Rosy-finch (Leucosticte atrata)
Black-throated Finches (Poephila cincta cincta)
Bramlings (Fringilla montifringilla)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finches (Leucosticte australis)
Cassin's Finches (Carpodacus cassinii)
Chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs)
Crimson Finches (Neochmia phaeton)
Cut-throat Finch (Amadina fasciata)
Grass-finches (Emberizoides)
Grassland Yellowfinches (Sicalis luteola)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches (Leucosticte tephrocotis)
Green Singing Finches aka Yellow-fronted Canaries (Serinus mozambicus)
Green-winged Pytilias (Pytilia melba)
Hawfinches (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus)
Java Finches, Java Sparrows aka Java Rice Finches (Padda oryzivora)
Mountain Finches (includes the Rosy Finches)
Northern Red Bishop (Euplectes orix)
Owl Finches (also known as Bicheno Finches or Double-barred Finches)
Painted Finches or Painted Firetails (Emblema pictum)
Plum-headed Finch (Neochmia modesta) also known as Cherry Finch
Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus)
Red-billed Firefinches or Senegal Firefinches (Lagonosticta senegala)
Red-billed Queleas (Quelea quelea)
Red-browed Finches (Neochmia temporali)
Red-headed Finches (Amadina erythrocephala), also known as Paradise Finch or Red Headed Weaver
Saffron Finches, Pelzeln's Finches, Yellow Finches
Striated Finches / White-rumped Munias / Sharp-tailed Finches or Wild Bangalese / White-backed Finches
Vampire Finches aka Sharp Beaked Finches, Sharp Billed Ground Finches (Geospiza nebulosa)
Waxbills
- Crimson Rumped Waxbills, Sundevall's Waxbill
- Orange-cheek Finches / Waxbills (Estrilda melpoda)
Yellow or Swainson's Canary (Serinus flaviventris)
Yellow-thighed Finch (Pselliophorus tibialis) - not a true finch, but a member of the large Emberizidae family (sparrows and buntings)
Yellow-Rumped Gray Singers, Gray Singing Finches
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