North America is home to 17 species of finches. Two of them live year-round in the Times News region: the American goldfinch ...

Attracting a mate can be a costly endeavor, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist, but new experiments he helped lead show that some male animals economize on courting ...

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for sunflower seeds appears sick. He’s less active, and when he perches, he gapes his beak open and closed, over and over, like a ...

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, Vol. 79, No. 6 (November/December 2006), pp. 1098-1105 (8 pages) Abstract The manipulation of egg content is one of the ...

Bringing home fellas that look just like dad might be a red flag to some. But for Galápagos finches, a pairing like this might just do papa proud. ByKatherine J. Wu Monday, October 22, 2018 NOVA ...