As the Usutu virus spreads, homeowners who feed birds in their gardens are urged to reduce bacteria as much as possible ...

A rare sighting among a flock of birds may have been a first for Newfoundland and Labrador. Kellie Joyce spotted a house finch on May 1, and immediately knew it was unusual.

"I had one guy try to get here from Labrador, but unfortunately the house finch left. He was the only one of, like, say 25 to 30 people that came to see it that didn't actually get to see it and ...

A rare house finch was spotted in the Codroy Valley by Kellie Joyce. (Submitted by Kellie Joyce)A rare sighting among a flock of birds may have been a first for Newfoundland and Labrador.Kellie Joyce ...

Some American Goldfinches, Purple Finches, House Finches, and Pine Siskins may stay and nest in Northeastern Minnesota, but each day Redpolls remain at the morning feeding may be their last before ...

After 20 hours of research, we think the Droll Yankees 18-Inch Onyx Mixed Seed Tube Bird Feeder with Removable Base is the best for most people.

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for sunflower seeds appears sick. He’s less active, and when he perches, he gapes his beak open and closed, over and over, like ...

We didn’t see our first house finch in Door County until 1989. House finches were denied legal protection in California, making them easy to capture. Once they began to populate the Northeast, their ...

If it seems from this review as though the The Stokes Guide to Finches does it all, that’s because it does. This is much more than a mere finch identification manual. A testament to these birds’ ...

A lump of redpolls . Long discussed and debated, it finally happened: Common Redpoll and Hoary Redpoll were combined into one species. These tiny finches nest across Alaska and northern Canada, with ...

Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding about the redpoll finch. On Thursday, the American Ornithological Society—the organization that oversees bird taxonomy— announced that the ...

Common redpolls may be little, but they are resilient creatures. ... Depending on their food source, some male house finches will appear more red than others. They love to visit feeders and hang out ...