House finches are small songbirds. Males have rosy red heads and chests, while females are brownish. These birds are native ...

(Metro Creative) — Though cats and dogs may garner the most attention, birds are popular pets as well. But which birds make good pets? Finches and parrots are the birds most often chosen as pets.

Spring brings the widest variety of birds through the Santa Fe area, but midwinter is nothing to sneeze at. Many of you have reported yellow-rumped warblers and ruby-crowned kinglets at your suet ...

Vermont bird scientists are saying "big flocks" of finches may be on the move south into our area this winter due to less ...

Invasive parasites in the Galápagos Islands may leave some Darwin’s tree finches singing the blues. The nonnative Philornis downsi fly infests the birds’ nests and lays its eggs there. Fly larvae ...

New York (WCBS) — A bird-smuggling suspect was stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday when live finches were found stuffed into hair curlers. CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez spoke with New ...

A Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes Big Apple bird-singing competitions, federal officials ...

For most people, the word “vampire” brings to mind Dracula or perhaps slayers such as Blade or Buffy; or maybe even the vampire bats of South America. Few will think of a small and rather lovely bird ...

Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Islands are once again providing insights into the theory of evolution, with two studies investigating their dealings with the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis ...