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 ...

Our last column focused on Juncos. This week, we will focus in a lesser manner on two other feeder birds, the black-capped chickadee and the more recent addition, the house finch. Let us begin with ...

What: The gray-crowned, brown-capped and black rosy-finch (and yes, the birds’ common names properly takes a hyphen). Where: All three species winter in Colorado’s mountains and have been flocking to ...

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 ...

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