House finches show up at bird feeders all year, but on most visits, their plumage is hardly eye-catching. They have dense brown streaking on the underside and a robust conical beak. Both males and ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

What: The gray-crowned, brown-capped and black rosy-finch (and yes, the birds’ common names properly takes a hyphen). Where: All three species winter in Colorado’s mountains and have been flocking to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) -- Bird of the Week for March 27 is the House Finch. About 10,000 different bird species populate the world, so it's not surprising that several species look remarkably ...

On Sunday, January 4th, 2026, 24 birders participated in the annual Christmas Bird Count, and counted 2171 birds of 50 ...

House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...

Mountaineers who venture high into the Colorado Rockies have likely spotted medium-sized, brown-and-pink birds rummaging around on snow patches for insects and seeds. These high-elevation specialists ...

If you have a birdfeeder anywhere around your home, chances are you are quite familiar with one of its most prolific visitors. The house finch may not be one of the more colorful backyard bird ...

If you are feeding birds, you’ve probably seen a house finch. The male birds are those sparrow-sized, grayish-brown birds with red on heads, shoulders and breast. Females lack the red but are streaked ...

The 2018-2019 Winter Finch Forecast suggests area backyard birdfeeder hosts may enjoy some unusual species over the next few months. Annually in late fall, a group of field ornithologists in Ontario, ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...