It has often been said that the male purple finch looks as if it's been dipped in raspberry juice. Male house finches can been red, but they can also been orange, pink and even yellow.

I go out into a rainy drizzle to wait and watch, but the purple finch has flown. Maybe it will return with others en masse and decorate the feeders for a while before we take them down. Maybe they ...

The purple finch is quite particular about its choice of habitat in the summer months. Cool and moist forests of evergreen trees are the favorite places for purple finches to set up shop and reproduce ...

Tyler Hoar will lead a discussion about forecasting which finch species will visit in the winter and provide an overview of each winter finch species and their current movements. Winter finches are ...

One of the birds we love to see in the winter is called a purple finch. This medium-sized bird is common at winter feeders in Central Minnesota, but not in the summer months.

Learn what a house finch looks like and how to attract one. Find out facts about the house finch nest, eggs, range, habitat and song.

Cassin’s relatives, the purple finch and the house finch, are common across most of the continent. House finches are the most common, in my experience, although they are newcomers to our area ...