It can be tricky to ID a house finch vs purple finch — here are the field marks and differences to look for when you see a ...

A biologist reveals his winter finch forecast using wild food crop data. Find out what birds you can expect to see at your ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

People cast wide nets over the ground to catch finches, particularly greenfinches, siskins and hawfinches, to keep them as songbirds or sell them in pet markets. Trappers often set decoys too to ...

With the change in weather, you may start spotting new birds or animals in Arizona due to migration or changing habits.

The seedheads are preceded by rings of sunny-yellow flowers that are attractive to bees. They hold up very well over winter, not affected by wind or rain, and the seeds provide food for small birds, ...

The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how ...

The outlook for a variety of birds coming to the backyard feeders or fruit trees in the Upper Peninsula or northern Wisconsin ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...

This much is for sure: When all of this started, I had no idea how much I didn’t know about birds. I didn’t know how seriously the internet takes nature. And I definitely didn’t know how ...

Liar, liar, world on fire. TV writer Elisabeth Finch didn’t confine her imaginative fiction to her scripts. In Peacock’s “Anatomy of Lies” (now streaming), the audacious storyteller spun ...

One of the most fascinating elements of observing birds is the phenomenon of migration. This is so alien to us that most ...