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 ...

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 ...

They give chirping calls and sing throughout the year with a wiry warble with scratchy notes at the end. Purple Finches don't have the streaked flanks of House Finches. The male birds have a ...

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 ...