The attractive house finch is one of the more common and recognizable species throughout the United States. Originally a “western” species of semiarid environments, it was introduced in the ...

What Does a Cassin’s Finch Look Like? Male Cassin’s finches are hardly streaked, lending them a vibrant plumage. “To me, the Cassin’s finch always seems brighter,” says Dusty Downey ...

On freshly molted (nonbreeding) bird, the blackish and reddish regions ... Flight more resembles the house finch than native sparrows. A female orange bishop may be passed off as female house ...

House finches, such as this adult male, can be common visitors to hummingbird feeders. By Gary Phillips For The Sun News The bird-breeding season continues in our area, although some species are ...

That's what the findings of new research on a common backyard bird, the house finch, imply ... genes in the hope of deciphering what Fang calls "the heritable genetic mechanism underlying disease ...

A team led by Geoffrey Hill and Wendy Hood at Auburn University examined liver tissue from 83 house finches and categorized the breast feather color of a subset of the birds. The researchers found red ...

According to the National Audubon Society, house finches are big fans of backyard bird feeders. They like to eat seeds, buds, and berries. While their diet is mostly vegetables, they sometimes ...