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.

This past summer, I was fortunate enough to have a pair of purple finches nest near me, allowing me to observe their courtship ritual for the first time. The male sang incessantly from a tree ...

House finches are common sights at feeders during winter in this area, particularly in urban locations, but when they’re seen, they’re often mistaken for purple finches.

Before the 1940s, purple finches were the only red finches that lived in eastern North America, and the males are really much better described as raspberry-jam red than purple.

Peggy Eyres, of Clayton, writes, “At the end of May, we hung a new plant by our kitchen window, and within a week, a bird kept flying into it and staying. When I looked inside, lo and behold, I ...

The house finches seemed to be more reticent about visiting the feeders when the purple finches were there. It’s not easy to tell the house and purple finch apart, but there are several clues.

The bird I show here is called the house finch. It competes directly with another native North American finch called the purple finch... Sunday, October 27 48°F / Cape Girardeau ...

Our final bird in a short series on LBJ’s “little brown jobs” is the House Finch, a locally common bird that was nonexistent here prior to the 1980’s. Once found only in the southwestern ...

These two birds with the cardinal on Stuart McCausland’s feeder in Kempsville are female and male purple finches. There. I’ve said it. After years of wondering and guessing when I see a… ...

The purple finch's bird song is so lovely, it features prominently in 19th-century literature. Their color is not ... but we haven’t had purple finches here at the house in five years or more. Among ...