In the winter, when purple finches may be around, it is quite easy to mistake them for house finches. I've gotten so I look at the colors on the males, with a reddish color most likely a house finch, ...

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

Laysan finches, also known as ekupuu in Hawaiian, were once found throughout the main Hawaiian isles but can now only be found at Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Known for their varied ...

We are prone to pay scant attention to the ever-present house finches at our backyard bird feeders. They’re not the most eye-catching birds. But the males attract the females' attention with a bit of ...

It seems like I have written a lot about birds lately, perhaps because even in our coldest weather many are still around and visible. On one of the recent sub-zero days, a group of birds in my ...

A genome study of the famed Darwin finch species on the Galapagos and Cocos islands has unveiled a gene behind the 15 species’ remarkable variation of beaks, a feature that helped inspire the father ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Prior to the 1900s, house finches couldn’t be found in this area. Now the problem isn’t seeing them here — it’s identifying them. This is the time of year when many people are focused on bird feeding.

Zebra finches program their offspring to prepare for global warming by singing to eggs before they hatch. In especially hot areas, finch parents make a special call to incubating eggs, basically ...

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Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. If songbirds could appear on ...