Birdwatchers will have the chance to see an eruption of color as several species of finches irrupt into Michigan this winter. A riot of yellows, reds, blues and purples will come with a large ...

We like to think that animals follow the crowd. If most of the group does something, surely the individual will copy. But what if the story is more complicated? What if the deciding factor isn't just ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

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 ...

Birds may not have a word for maroon. Or burnt sienna. But show a zebra finch a sunset-colored object, and she'll quickly decide whether it looks more 'red' or 'orange.' A new study shows that birds ...