var myBirdFamily = { commonname: "House Finch", latinname: "Carpodacus mexicanus", familyname: "Fringilline and Cardueline Finches and Allies", familysource: "../taxonomy/finches.html"};

var myAudioURL = "../audio/House Finch.mp3";

var myImages = new Array(
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseFinch4.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseFinch4.jpg", description: "Country finches are always more intensely colored than city and suburban birds.<br/> This finch is enjoying his favorite foods - thistle.<br/> Thistle provides the red pigment caretenoid, which becomes the red on his chest.<br/> The redness of his face and chest becomes a sexual 'proxy' for fitness - he who is red, can find thistle.", location: "Milpitas - Calaveras Road towards Sunol", date: new Date(2005,4,14) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseFinchFemale.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseFinchFemale.jpg", description: "Fall Fruit - Female", location: "Palo Alto, CA - Harker Ave", date: new Date(2005,8,27) },
	{ thumbnailsource: "../webimages/smallthumbs/HouseFinch5.jpg", imagesource: "../webimages/screensize/HouseFinch5.jpg", description: "Western Bluebird and House Finch<br/><br/> Interestingly, this was misidentified as a Cassin's Finch by an experienced birder.<br/> It was hard to tell from the binoculars, but the camera reveals all.<br/> In this case the chest streaking of the house finch is revealed as well as the curved bill.<br/> In contrast, the Cassin's finch has a triangular bill, and no streaking.<br/><br/> I can now use the zoom feature of my digital camera to do a quick camera shot, and zoom<br/> to do high magnification identification in the field - look ma, no scope!<br/>", location: "Kernville, CA - Piute Mountain - Landers Meadow", date: new Date(2005,5,25) }
	)