"We found that there were no changes in the finches' responses to our modified calls even when the simulated songs had changed by the equivalent of three drought events," says Katie M. Schroeder ...

If you’ve ever seen an Australian finch, you know that it has a brightly colored red, orange, or yellow bill. But how and why ...

Birders predict which species, including finches, will visit the Adirondacks this winter based on available food sources.

Sometimes the most common things are extraordinarily beautiful, especially if we just slow down and really take a look. The ...

What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of ...

How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

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 ...

House finches, such as this adult male, can be common visitors to hummingbird feeders. By Gary Phillips For The Sun News The bird-breeding season continues in our area, although some species are ...

David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one ...

Since Oct. 29, I’ve enjoyed watching up to five purple finches at our bird feeders. Last year I didn’t see one until Nov. 15. These early birds are a bit of a surprise: biologists say this ...