What a treat it must have been for Michelle Gaggiotti to look out of the window into her Newcastle yard in Virginia Beach and see several rare purple finches visiting her feeder! These rosy red ...

This is a tale of two finches — actually two different finch species — and the American redbud. There’s a certain time of year when the native redbud is blooming, with its tiny pink flowers in ...

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 latter part of August 2020 brought an impressive irruption of red-breasted nuthatch to Iowa, with many sightings continuing into early September. It appears other species might be irrupting into ...

Jul. 16—Some finches are common and easy to spot, while others can be tricky to identify. Laura Hulbert, a Tahlequah resident and bird enthusiast, said Fringillidae — the family finches fall into — ...

We've had a proliferation of house finches serenading us with their bubbly songs in our backyard the past couple of weeks. It's as if they're soothing us after the trauma of Hurricane Ike. They utter ...