How rare a Gouldian Finch ? Gouldian Finches are Australia's most spectacularly colored grass finches, and are perhaps the ...

I think there is no better way to start a column about purple finches than to quote Roger Tory Peterson’s description of this bird, he called them “sparrows dipped in raspberry juice.” I saw my first ...

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 ...

Observations of colonially breeding zebra finches in Australia revealed that some individuals had color preferences for nesting materials, some of which were almost obsessive, and some of these ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

Cottage gardens are both comforting and whimsical. And, if you add a host of bird species, they become pure magic. Here are ...

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, ...