In the winter, when purple finches may be around, it is quite easy to mistake them for house finches. I've gotten so I look at the colors on the males, with a reddish color most likely a house finch, ...

If you've spotted a yellow house finch, you might wonder if it's rare — and what caused the yellow coloration. Here's what ...

Laysan finches, also known as ekupuu in Hawaiian, were once found throughout the main Hawaiian isles but can now only be found at Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Known for their varied ...

Learn what a house finch looks like and how to attract one. Find out facts about the house finch nest, eggs, range, habitat ...

We are prone to pay scant attention to the ever-present house finches at our backyard bird feeders. They’re not the most eye-catching birds. But the males attract the females' attention with a bit of ...

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It seems like I have written a lot about birds lately, perhaps because even in our coldest weather many are still around and visible. On one of the recent sub-zero days, a group of birds in my ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the latest research on Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos Islands shows an unexpected pattern of natural selection that is allowing researchers “a rare glimpse into what the ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

Prior to the 1900s, house finches couldn’t be found in this area. Now the problem isn’t seeing them here — it’s identifying them. This is the time of year when many people are focused on bird feeding.

A genome study of the famed Darwin finch species on the Galapagos and Cocos islands has unveiled a gene behind the 15 species’ remarkable variation of beaks, a feature that helped inspire the father ...

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