Prior to the 1900s, house finches couldn’t be found in this area. Now the problem isn’t seeing them here — it’s identifying them. This is the time of year when many people are focused on bird feeding.

House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...

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 ...

I’ve been trying for several years to get good pictures that show the differences between purple finches and house finches, the two species of reddish finches that live in or migrate through Berks ...

Yellow House Finch: Normal or Not? House finches are common birds that brighten up backyard feeders across the United States. Bird-watchers throughout the country admire their rosy plumage and cheery ...

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 ...

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, ...

The spectacle of spring is upon us — birds singing, flowers blooming, bees buzzing. And though you may not be aware, there are romantic dramas to rival the latest season of Downton Abbey taking place ...

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 ...

A great opportunity has come to many people’s way: the opportunity to stay at home. There is a fine line between feeling suffocatingly housebound and being filled with relish for your domestic ...

While the house finch remains one of the 10 most common backyard birds in the U.S., its population of millions has been cut in half by house finch eye disease over the past 25 years and likely will ...