If you've spotted a yellow house finch, you might wonder if it's rare — and what caused the yellow coloration. Here's what ...

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, ...

Learn what an American goldfinch looks like and sounds like and what this bird eats. Also find out why goldfinches look ...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, and orange. In a study published in Current Biology, ...

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Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...

Columnist Bill Danielson's careful winter watch reveals a male house finch missing most of his upper beak, raising questions ...