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How to identify a house finch

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 ...
Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...
A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.
The typically streaked brownish plumage of fledglings of many species of Passerine birds makes it difficult to discriminate the sexes. Here discriminant analysis on a set of plumage color and ...