If you have backyard bird feeders, you might want to be on the lookout for some new visitors this season. This is the time of year when longtime Michigan birdwatchers hope to catch a glimpse of the so ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

In September, as summer yields to fall, most of the colorful birds that breed in our region during spring and summer head south for warmer locales. The departure of ruby-throated hummingbirds, ...

The first goldfinches of the season showed up at my feeder about a month ago, right around the time that winter began to loosen its grip on the barren forest around my Schuylkill County home. For the ...

Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...

A highly endangered rainbow-colored Australian finch is breaking all the rules when it comes to avian evolution, according to new research published today by scientists from CU Boulder, the Cornell ...

The typically streaked brownish plumage of fledglings of many species of Passerine birds makes it difficult to discriminate the sexes. Here discriminant analysis on a set of plumage color and ...