Purple finches and house finches are similar in appearance, as males of both have a lot of red on the head. This is a house finch. In your photo (above), the bird is perched at an angle, ...

The house finches seemed to be more reticent about visiting the feeders when the purple finches were there. It’s not easy to tell the house and purple finch apart, but there are several clues.

The purple finch's bird song is so lovely, it features prominently in 19th-century literature. Their color is not ... but we haven’t had purple finches here at the house in five years or more. Among ...

House finches are known to carry certain diseases and compete against other birds, such as purple finches, when it comes to food. Due to this, the house finch is considered an invasive species in ...

The Cassin’s finch showed up in Stanley, North Dakota, my hometown. This isn’t the first sighting of Cassin’s in North Dakota, but the total is probably fewer than a handful.

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. ... the house sparrow, as a finch, has a more sizeable beak. The martin, ...

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. ... the house sparrow, as a finch, has a more sizeable beak. The martin, ...

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

The other finches — purple finch, house finch and goldfinch — are likely to be seen each winter and they, along with the closely related pine siskin, may also be here in the warmer months.

House finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) frequently come to my tube bird feeder because of the small openings that permit black oil sunflower seeds to be easily reached, and because of their ...