House finches and purple finches are both small birds which are native to North America. Both species have stunning red and brown plumage which means that they are easily confused for each other.

Identifying the male and female house from other Carpodacus finches requires care. The male house differs from the male purple finch not only by having a smaller, more curved bill, but also by ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's ...

The purple finch enjoys feeding on the buds, flowers, and seeds of deciduous trees. It also helps itself to insects and ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

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