DEAR JOAN: Last weekend I spotted a white bird at our backyard bird feeder. All of the other birds at the feeder at the time were house finches. Other than color, the white bird looked the same ...

A female house finch has a fairly plain brown face, while a female purple finch has a contrasting white eyebrow and whisker mark. House finches also have a smaller beak, a slimmer body ...

The attractive house finch is one of the more common and recognizable species throughout the United States. Originally a “western” species of semiarid environments, it was introduced in the ...

Females require a closer look; the House Finch head is finely mottled whereas the Purple Finch shows the appearance of a mask with a dark “stripe” through the eye and white-buff streaks above ...

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 ...

There are several types of finches, with more than 227 species worldwide. Of those species, 60 are red-listed, and 41 are endangered or extinct. One of the most common finches is the house finch.

House finches are the perfect urban bird ... Yellow-breasted chats can become red-breasted. The white stripe above the eye of white-throated sparrows might have an accent dash of red.

The females have a very distinct white eyepatch that helps greatly with identification. A very close cousin of the purple finch is the house finch. The male house finch is also quite reddish but ...

It has become fairly common across most of the United States. The bird I show here is called the house finch. It competes directly with another native North American finch called the purple finch.