House finches should certainly generate interest, setting aside their never-ending appetite for birdseed. While the female and juvenile birds are brown with smoky-brown streaking, the males have a ...

The house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) is unquestionably one of the most common, although lesser-known birds in North America, found in every state in the Union.This was not always the case ...

We had a newcomer at our birdfeeder today. It looked like a sparrow, but we thought its head had a touch of red. It was exciting, since our winter birds left long ago. Except for a pair of ...

The summer tanager, which stops in Houston to nest, is the only breeding bird in North ...

The researchers zeroed in on a particular gene called follistatin which is found on the Gouldian Finch sex chromosome and regulates melanin to produce either red or black-headed finches. For the ...

Black-headed birds were also more likely to approach and touch the string before a red-headed finch would. Gouldian finches have extremely colourful plumage with either red, black, or - rarely ...

Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to research published today in the Proceedings of ...

A Sugar Land reader emailed a description of a sparrow-size , reddish-headed bird in her yard. She wondered if it could be an escaped caged bird. An email from a Hill Country couple recounted ...

While the female and juvenile birds are brown with smoky-brown streaking, the males have a... House finches find a home in Texas Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...