House finches show up at bird feeders all year, but on most visits, their plumage is hardly eye-catching. They have dense brown streaking on the underside and a robust conical beak. Both males and ...

Learn what a house finch looks like and how to attract one. Find out facts about the house finch nest, eggs, range, habitat ...

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 ...

If you have a birdfeeder anywhere around your home, chances are you are quite familiar with one of its most prolific visitors. The house finch may not be one of the more colorful backyard bird ...

The 2018-2019 Winter Finch Forecast suggests area backyard birdfeeder hosts may enjoy some unusual species over the next few months. Annually in late fall, a group of field ornithologists in Ontario, ...

Mountaineers who venture high into the Colorado Rockies have likely spotted medium-sized, brown-and-pink birds rummaging around on snow patches for insects and seeds. These high-elevation specialists ...

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 attractive Cassin’s finch of the montane west is slightly larger and longer winged than the similar purple finch, which it occasionally overlaps with during winter. It is often seen in small ...

Many exotic bird species have made Southern California their home, breeding and living here year-round, with several populations of these birds skyrocketing in recent years. Doug Willick, who records ...

Not many birds have pink plumage, so if you see some small birds with pink feathers you surely have focused on a rosy-finch. A small number of rosy-finches breed in the alpine areas of Pikes Peak, but ...

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 east in ...

Birds that can live at 14,000 feet and also breed at sea level might have evolved more quickly than previously thought Mountaineers who venture high into the Colorado Rockies have likely spotted ...