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've spotted a yellow house finch, you might wonder if it's rare — and what caused the yellow coloration. Here's what ...

Animals often have preferences: dog lovers can tell you their pet’s favorite toy, or place to sleep, for example. In the bird ...

A friend told me about a bunch of handsome “red-faced brown birds” crowding around his birdfeeders, accompanied by similar-looking drab brown birds. What he saw were male house finches in their rich ...

April 23 (UPI) --The heads of Gouldian finches feature one of three different colors: yellow, red and black. Now, scientists know why the pressures of natural selection have failed to erase the ...

There appears to be an underlying selection mechanism at work among Gouldian finches -- a mechanism that allows this species to produce and maintain individuals with red heads, black heads, and yellow ...

A highly endangered rainbow-colored Australian finch is breaking all the rules when it comes to avian evolution, according to new research published today by scientists from CU Boulder, the Cornell ...

Birdwatchers will have the chance to see an eruption of color as several species of finches irrupt into Michigan this winter. A riot of yellows, reds, blues and purples will come with a large ...

In an alternative to traditional great flood narratives, the Earth’s “stark and gray” landscape and animals are transformed by a deitylike rainbow that appears after 11 days of rain. The ruler of the ...

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, ...