Fall leaves get a warm welcome from Christie Hunt. The River Forest, Illinois, resident rakes them into her flower beds, ...

The descriptor “finch” is used by birders to describe a family of birds with similar characteristics. In North America, we ...

New research on zebra finches reveals that stress spreads within social groups, even affecting individuals not directly ...

Animal habitats are currently changing extremely rapidly and extensively due to urbanization and climate change. As a result, ...

The Bird Buddy is a smart bird feeder that can identify the birds who stop by your home. But is it worth buying?

Sharp-tailed grouse suffered a steep decline and are now barely hanging on. They’re protected as endangered under Washington ...

Roger Tory Peterson described them as sparrows dipped in raspberry juice. What a wonderful image of a purple finch, which is ...

What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of birds? Experiments conducted by the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the ...

Observations at your bird feeder could help inform research being done at Cornell University and other institutions.

A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...

Australian finches' bill colors come from small genetic variations affecting how they process dietary pigments.

Recent studies reveal how birds develop their vibrant colors. Parrots create pigments called psittacofulvins, while finches ...