Also known as the rainbow finch, the Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae) is a species of grassfinch that comes in three color combinations, with a black, red or yellow face to complement its bright ...

If you want to see one, you’ll have to visit the forests of Bolivia. The colorful bird is also known as the rainbow finch or ...

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 ...

The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how ...

Our three photoreceptors reveal a rainbow to us - but we can't begin to imagine the ... pools and coral reefs of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Adult male Gouldian finches are unmistakable, squeezing ...

The mating song of a male Darwin's medium ground finch. Credit: Jeff Podos He knew, for instance, that beaks can either evolve powerfully to crush hard seeds or they can remain more delicate ...

We got our Rainbow in November of 2022. My husband used to have asthma and terrible allergies. A few months after we got it he was off all of his asthma medicine. We completed the rebate program.

Wolf Island, in the Galápagos, is remote and rarely visited. But this volcanic island is home to an unusual group of birds: vampire ground finches. Photographer Thomas P Peschak had the rare ...

Biologists have identified a key connection between ecology and speciation in Darwin's finches, famous residents of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Prior work on these birds had established that ...

Bill Finch is the lead horticulture and science advisor to the Mobile Botanical Gardens in Alabama. He is also the long-time garden columnist for the Alabama Press-Register. A naturalist cuts ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are urging North Carolina residents in Rutherford County downstream of the Lake Lure Dam to evacuate immediately as the dam is at risk of imminent ...