House finches and purple finches are both small birds which are native to North America. Both species have stunning red and brown plumage which means that they are easily confused for each other.

What Does a Cassin’s Finch Look Like? Male Cassin’s finches are hardly streaked, lending them a vibrant plumage. “To me, the Cassin’s finch always seems brighter,” says Dusty Downey, conservation ...

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 ...

Mike Jacobs Always in Season: House finch solves a backyard mystery The first reference I found to house finches in the Herald’s online archive was in 1989, when Milt Sather called about a house ...

A classic bird identification challenge is separating House from Cassin’s Finches. Pictured are Cassin’s Finches. The male House Finch has heavy streaking on the flanks that is lacking or ...

ALWAYS IN SEASON: How to tell a finch from a warbler Probably, the American goldfinch should have been included in last week's column. It's another good starter bird, like the yellow warbler. It ...

What he saw were male house finches in their rich brown breeding plumage. Their look is accented by a vivid red band around the head along with a snappy red chin, throat and rump.

Other common species where the male and female have different plumage include house finch, eastern bluebird, boat-tailed grackle, and painted bunting.

Not many birds have pink plumage, so if you see some small birds with pink feathers you surely have focused on a rosy-finch. A small number of rosy-finches breed in the alpine areas of Pikes Peak ...

THERE have been recent unsubstantiated reports that individuals of certain migratory species of birds have arrived in their African wintering grounds in breeding plumage instead of their normal ...

Today, clusters of two to three New Guinea estrildid finch species live in overlapping geographic regions, yet somehow have remained separate species with distinct plumage patterns.