House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) 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 ...

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 small red finch. The post House Finch vs Purple Finch: How to Tell the ...

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 ...

A great opportunity has come to many people’s way: the opportunity to stay at home. There is a fine line between feeling suffocatingly housebound and being filled with relish for your domestic ...

Our final bird in a short series on LBJ’s “little brown jobs” is the House Finch, a locally common bird that was nonexistent here prior to the 1980’s. Once found only in the southwestern United States ...

It is unfortunate that humans have been responsible for moving a non-native species into Minnesota. However, on the plus side, house finches do seem to compete for house sparrow habitat and are ...

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, ...

GRAND FORKS – A house finch was among the first birds that showed up when I put out my feeder array a few days ago. This was a little surprising. House finches aren’t rare, by any means, but I ...

While the house finch remains one of the 10 most common backyard birds in the U.S., its population of millions has been cut in half by house finch eye disease over the past 25 years and likely will ...

A friend told me about a bunch of handsome “red-faced brown birds” crowding around his birdfeeders, accompanied by similar-looking drab brown birds. What he saw were male house finches in their rich ...

You’ve probably seen these cute little birds in your local pet stores or even congregating in the wild, flocking in backyards, foraging for food, and gathering around bird feeders. But what is a finch ...