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How it identify a baby sparrow verses a baby finch?

I have a nest of 5 babies that are around 5-7 days old that I rescued. They were nesting in a friend's horse trailer that left the area and can not be returned home to parent birds sadly. They babies are in good hands as I have fed many baby birds with success but these are hard to identify being so so young and featherless. Any sure fire ways of telling this young? I can also use the nest to identify.

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1. You can't really tell until it is older, in about a week. When that happens, the sparrow should be getting darker colors and a few streaks of gray on its head. The finch, (depending one what kind) will get some feathers of brown and other streaks of color.