While there are not too many finch species that call Florida home, I do have a special affinity to these birds. Not sure why I do. 
My series of 10 caches will focus on what are know as "Darwin Finches". There are about 18 species of these birds found on the Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin noticed during his visit there while on the HMS Beagle in the 1830's.
This relatively small, slender-billed finch is endemic to the Galapagos Islands, where it is found on Fernandina, Santiago, Pinta, Darwin and Wolf Islands. On the first three islands, it breeds in the humid highlands and disperses afterwards, but on the remaining smaller and lower islands the sharp-beaked ground finch is found in the arid zone year-round. Due to habitat destruction its range has decreased.