English: Laysan Finch
Subject: Finches, Birds--Nests, Finches--Nests
Tag: Birds
Author Walter Kenrick Fisher (1878–1953)
Date 1906
Source/Photographer Fisher, Walter K. (1906) Birds of Laysan and the Leedard Islands, Hawaiian Group, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, vol. 23 for 1903, part III, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_43333_Laysan_Finch.jpeg

The Laysan Finch (Telespiza cantans) is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper that is endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is one of four remaining finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers. The Laysan finch is named after Laysan, the island to which it was endemic on its discovery. The male Laysan finch has yellow plumage with a whitish belly and a grey neck, while the female is duller with brown streaking. The Laysan finch is a large honeycreeper with a heavy bill. Laysan finches are generalists, feeding on seeds, small insects, fruit, carrion, and the eggs of nesting seabirds. The Laysan finch nests in vegetation, laying three eggs in a cup-shaped nest .

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Telespiza
Species: Telespiza cantans Wilson, SB, 1890