Wildlife experts are warning of a highly contagious illness affecting backyard birds this spring, commonly known as house ...

What Does a House Finch Look Like? The male has reddish forehead, breast and rump; a female house finch is streaked gray and ...

House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...

If you are feeding birds, you’ve probably seen a house finch. The male birds are those sparrow-sized, grayish-brown birds with red on heads, shoulders and breast. Females lack the red but are streaked ...

The flash of deep red at the bird feeder might have you guessing. Is it a Purple Finch? Something more exotic? Identifying the small, energetic birds that visit our yards can feel like a puzzle. One ...

Bird counts in the 1960s showed only a few house finches in a couple of Eastern states. Counts from successive decades show a westward movement, now reaching all the way through the Dakotas to join ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) -- Bird of the Week for March 27 is the House Finch. About 10,000 different bird species populate the world, so it's not surprising that several species look remarkably ...

Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites ...

Our final bird in a short series on LBJ’s “little brown jobs” is the House Finch, a locally common bird that was nonexistent here prior to the 1980’s. Once found only in the southwestern United States ...

DEAR JOAN: I have a house flinch that insists on building a nest on the wires — telephone, cable, electric — above my bedroom window. It creates a mess, but I could deal this with it except that last ...

It seems like I have written a lot about birds lately, perhaps because even in our coldest weather many are still around and visible. On one of the recent sub-zero days, a group of birds in my ...