If you've spotted a yellow house finch, you might wonder if it's rare — and what caused the yellow coloration. Here's what ...

Learn what a house finch looks like and how to attract one. Find out facts about the house finch nest, eggs, range, habitat ...

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 ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

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 ...

It goes a little something like this: A young male zebra finch, whose father taught him a song, shared that song with a brother, with the two youngsters then creating new tunes based on dad’s ...

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. If songbirds could appear on ...

Winter is like nighttime for gardens. The bustling activity of spring and summer fades, and a blanket of snow or frost often ...

The 2018-2019 Winter Finch Forecast suggests area backyard birdfeeder hosts may enjoy some unusual species over the next few months. Annually in late fall, a group of field ornithologists in Ontario, ...