For the past few months and continuing through the winter, several species of finches are seeing a very good flight year ...

From sharing rides on outings to taking fewer if any overnight trips to the field, birders have felt limited by the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic. Thankfully, not so the birds. While the usual ...

I remember looking out at the birdfeeder and seeing it crammed full of evening grosbeaks — large, black-and-yellow finches with large bills. They reminded me of big wasps, in a way. They would show up ...

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 ...

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 bright yellow American goldfinch is a favorite of backyard bird-watchers. Discover how to attract these birds with their ...

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 ...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, and orange. In a study published in Current Biology, ...

When red-billed and yellow-billed finches mate, their offspring have orange bills. By studying the exact shade of orange in ...