The difference between these birds becomes clear when you compare the adult males. Purple finches are a deep cranberry or raspberry color on most of their body. Male house finches are more orange ...

The attractive house finch is one of the more common and recognizable species throughout the United States. Originally a “western” species of semiarid environments, it was introduced in the ...

My avian guests include house finches, California towhees, Oregon juncoes, white-crowned sparrows, chickadees and pretty little Townsend’s warblers. Do you know the new, non-racist name for this ...

The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada,” by Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. Young, published in 2024, is ...

The birds wait for me to do this and sing at me ... My avian guests include house finches, California towhees, Oregon juncoes, white-crowned sparrows, chickadees and pretty little Townsend ...

On freshly molted (nonbreeding) bird, the blackish and reddish regions ... Flight more resembles the house finch than native sparrows. A female orange bishop may be passed off as female house ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia is warning people who like to feed birds to be on the lookout. An eye disease that can prove ...

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the ...