A female house finch forages near the Hay Barn at UC Santa Cruz. House finches are common from coast to coast today and are familiar visitors to backyard feeders. These birds are native to the ...

Black Gouldian finch family: male, female, and juveniles. This image accompanied the report, "Genetic Incompatibility Drives Sex Allocation and Maternal Investment in a Polymorphic Finch," by S.

She lacks the distinct pale eyebrow found on the male. Identifying the male and female house from other Carpodacus finches requires care. The male house differs from the male purple finch not only ...

Female finches tend to mate with males that have the same size beaks. These factors together can add to the development of new species. The Grants return each year to Daphne Major to observe and ...

Female house finches do most of the nest building and all of the egg incubating. The males help out with feeding the nestlings. Audubon has this to say about the species' spread: "Native to the ...

The scientists observed young male zebra finches working to learn their tunes. Some juvenile birds were given feedback after singing in the form of a video of a female bird performing arousal ...