The researchers think that the original male must have flown 65 miles from the large cactus finches' home island of Española. That's a very long way for a small finch to fly, and so it would be ...

This is a harsh place to survive, unless you are a seabird which can get food from the rich adjacent ocean,' he explains. But finches are not seabirds and instead of a seafood diet, these small birds ...

Polytypic. Length 6". The house is a relatively small Carpodacus finch with a longish, slightly notched tail, short wings, and a distinctly small bill with a curved culmen. Male: the breast ...

Several folks have contacted me recently about small, “finch-type” birds visiting their hummingbird feeders and preventing hummers from feeding. The finch-type birds are house finches and are ...

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 ...