Quick Take Wild finches can be petted, but it is generally discouraged due to fear, stress, and potential harm to feathers or ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- 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 ...

The hummingbirds, warblers and butterflies are gone. But this time of year, house finches congregate at bird feeders like ...

Zebra finches have a more complex way of communicating than previously thought. A new study published in the journal Science found that the sociable songbird does not just recognize and organize ...

House finches, with their brown-streaked plumage and stout conical beaks, are such a common sight we often take them for granted.

Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had ...

Vampire finches will resort to drinking blood for survival when they can't find other food sources like seeds and insects. Peter Wilton via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 The Galápagos Islands are home to 13 ...

Kiyoko Gotanda received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT), the British ...

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Zebra finches fire up brain regions and vibrate their vocal cords in ways that mimic singing, even while asleep. Flickr/Michael Lawton Zebra finches are so good at singing, they could do it in their ...

I just got back from a pretty remarkable lecture by the husband-and-wife team of Peter and Rosemary Grant. The Grants started studying Darwin’s finches on the Galapagos Islands in 1973, and they made ...

A Salmonellosis outbreak is killing thousands of finches across the country, and experts say bird feeders might be spreading the disease. Linda Horvath found the first dead bird on her back deck ...