The past couple of years have seen generally slim pickings in the region in terms of avian visitors that can bring color 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 ...

(Metro Creative) — Though cats and dogs may garner the most attention, birds are popular pets as well. But which birds make good pets? Finches and parrots are the birds most often chosen as pets.

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

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, ...

DEAR JOAN: Last weekend I spotted a white bird at our backyard bird feeder. All of the other birds at the feeder at the time were house finches. Other than color, the white bird looked the same as the ...

‘I don’t very often miss your articles but perhaps I did if you addressed the eye problem in the (house) finch,’ writes Patricia Brady of Sellersville. ‘I had an infected finch at my feeder — a female ...