If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...
The hummingbirds, warblers and butterflies are gone. But this time of year, house finches congregate at bird feeders like ...
Quick Take Wild finches can be petted, but it is generally discouraged due to fear, stress, and potential harm to feathers or ...
Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...
For a reddish-beaked bird called the zebra finch, sexiness is color-coded. Males have beaks that range from light orange to dark red. But to females, a male's colored bill may simply be hot, or not, ...
A highly endangered rainbow-colored Australian finch is breaking all the rules when it comes to avian evolution, according to new research published today by scientists from CU Boulder, the Cornell ...
The typically streaked brownish plumage of fledglings of many species of Passerine birds makes it difficult to discriminate the sexes. Here discriminant analysis on a set of plumage color and ...