To me, the Cassins finch always seems brighter, says Dusty Downey, conservation ranching manager at the Audubon Rockies. The rich red crown of a male Cassins makes a striking contrast to its pale ...

The common is generally a relatively small, streaked finch with a small, pointed bill; short, deeply notched tail; 2 white wing bars; black chin; red cap; and varying amounts of red underneath ...

Known for its distinctive, red-splashed plumage, the colorful house finch is a familiar year-round resident across Northern Iowa. Lowell Washburn Special to the Globe Gazette ...

A small red-listed bird has been seen at a beauty spot at a National Trust site. According to bird watching site, goingbirding.com, a marsh tit was reported at Fishpool Valley on June 27, which lies ...

Today, of Ohio’s six widespread breeding woodpecker species, the red-headed is easily the scarcest. There are an estimated 26,000 birds in the state.

She says the birds are easily recognizable by the bright red stripe on their black wing. The birds are a known nightmare among runners, including Hannah Durbin who was attacked on a group run ...

This week, we will focus in a lesser manner on two other feeder birds, the black-capped chickadee and the more recent addition, the house finch. Let us begin with house finch. The house finch, I ...

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 ...

Jet black cap. Black wings with yellow lesser coverts and narrow white tips to greater coverts, forming 2 white wing bars along with white edging to the tertials. White inner webs to most of the ...

The Southern Black-throated Finch is now extinct in NSW and endangered in Queensland. In just 30 years, its range has shrunk by 80%. Proposed mining development in Queensland will reduce the bird ...

They might be tiny but the endangered black-throated finch is a bird with a big, bad reputation in some parts of Queensland. The small, seed-eating bird has been blamed for stalling mining and ...