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 ...

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 ...

Driven south due to a poor conifer crop up north, evening grosbeaks, redpolls and bohemian waxwings will be looking for food ...

The typically streaked brownish plumage of fledglings of many species of Passerine birds makes it difficult to discriminate the sexes. Here discriminant analysis on a set of plumage color and ...

Every time a zebra finch lands, takes off, or hops on the guitars' strings, the notes play through a nearby amplifier. Courtesy of Ben Mirin The young male zebra finch alighted on the nearest guitar ...