I have enjoyed reading bird questions and answers on your Web site. I am wondering if anyone has e-mailed you about house finches trying to feed from hummingbird feeders. What's up with these crazy ...

What Does a House Finch Look Like? The male has reddish forehead, breast and rump; a female house finch is streaked gray and ...

How does a new house finch couple find their way to my hidden porch light every May, build a new nest, raise a family or two, leave midsummer, only to return the following May to repeat the same ...

Bird counts in the 1960s showed only a few house finches in a couple of Eastern states. Counts from successive decades show a westward movement, now reaching all the way through the Dakotas to join ...

That reddish finch at your feeders is an amazing bird, capable of great feats of resilience in the face of some very hard times. Consider its recent history: Its ancestors were netted for years along ...

House finches are some of the most numerous birds at my feeder right now, always there in cheery little groups of bright red males and subtly brown-streaked females. They are fun to take photos of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) -- Bird of the Week for March 27 is the House Finch. About 10,000 different bird species populate the world, so it's not surprising that several species look remarkably ...

A familiar bird arrives at the feeder, a little smaller than a sparrow, lighter and more nimble. It is a discrete maternal color, a streaky mix of pale and brownish-gray, well-suited to sit upon an ...

It seems like I have written a lot about birds lately, perhaps because even in our coldest weather many are still around and visible. On one of the recent sub-zero days, a group of birds in my ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

DEAR JOAN: A female house finch, I believe, that has been visiting our backyard feeders for several days in a row, has a very deformed beak. It appears that her lower beak is grossly long and her ...