Rosy Finches

[William H Kaempfer]

Here is a link to an interesting article in the CU-Boulder Arts and Sciences Magazine about research on rosy finches by Eric Funk with Scott Taylor.  Don't start hyperventilating about your life list—there isn't a push here for lumping.

Rosy-finches are Colorado’s high-alpine specialists, and researchers want to know why | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder

Rosy-finches are Colorado’s high-alpine specialists, and researchers want to know why | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder “Generally, we think of speciation as taking a long time—on the order of millions of years,” Funk said. “But if all of this variation exists within rosy-finches already, and the genome is able to recombine these different genes to produce new trait combinations, it could potentially happen a lot faster. www.colorado.edu

Bill Kaempfer

11,000 feet below BCRF breeding range in Safety Harbor, FL