House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A bird-smuggling suspect was stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday when live finches were found stuffed into hair curlers. CBS2's Hazel Sanchez spoke with ...

A Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes Big Apple bird-singing competitions, federal officials ...

Want to see a wider variety of birds in your backyard? Choosing the right food is key, since some, like one particular seed, are far more popular than others.

The hawfinch is the UK’s largest and most powerful finch. Despite weighing over twice as much as the more familiar chaffinch, the hawfinch remains one of Britain’s most elusive birds. However, winter ...

The woodpecker finches of the Galpagos Islands show no sign of learning their considerable tool-using skill by copying each other. The finches poke twigs or cactus spines into crevices to dig out ...

If you've been labouring tirelessly to create a stunning garden, it can be disappointing when birds fail to make it their home. However, don't despair. Specialists say that by introducing just a ...

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 ...

House finches, with their brown-streaked plumage and stout conical beaks, are such a common sight we often take them for granted.

Still looking for your first pine siskin or purple finch of the winter? Or maybe one of those perky, ever-busy red-breasted nuthatches? Well, you can likely forget about them. They'll probably not ...