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 ...

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 ...

What Does a House Finch Look Like? The male has reddish forehead, breast and rump; a female house finch is streaked gray and brown above, with a lighter underside. Both sexes have brown-streaked ...

After all, the two species look incredibly alike ... southern Canada and the northeastern U.S. during breeding season. And purple finches may be seen anywhere in the southeastern states during ...

But finches are not seabirds and instead of a seafood diet, these small birds have to utilise other resources in their unforgiving environment. Dr Alex Bond, Senior Curator of Birds at the Museum ...

"One-quarter to one-half of the bird feed is dislodged from my feeder every time the wind blows and the feeder hits the pole.

Female: she is much drabber, lacking the all-red coloration of the male ... Identifying the male and female house from other Carpodacus finches requires care. The male house differs from the ...