The attractive house ... finch with a longish, slightly notched tail, short wings, and a distinctly small bill with a curved culmen. Male: the breast, rump, and front of the head are typically red ...

as males of both have a lot of red on the head. This is a house finch. In your photo (above), the bird is perched at an angle, making it hard to discern the slimmer body, longer tail and slightly ...

A team led by Geoffrey Hill and Wendy Hood at Auburn University examined liver tissue from 83 house finches and categorized the breast feather color of a subset of the birds. The researchers found red ...

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for ... Lastly, the reddish mating color on his head ...

It occasionally joins the more common house finch at ... than other Haemorhous finches, with distinctive fine streaking on the undertail coverts. Male: a bright pinkish-red crown contrasts sharply ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia is warning people who like to feed birds to be on the lookout. An eye disease that can prove ...