While the house finch remains one of the 10 most common backyard birds in the U.S., its population of millions has been cut in half by house finch eye disease over the past 25 years and likely ...

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 ...

To attract females for breeding, the males exhibit a strong pink / red coloration on their throat and rump, and a red line over their eyes. The abdomen is white, streaked with brown. These native ...