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 ...

The hawfinch is the UK’s largest and most powerful finch. Despite weighing over twice as much as the more familiar chaffinch, the hawfinch remains one of Britain’s most elusive birds. However, winter ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A bird-smuggling suspect was stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday when live finches were found stuffed into hair curlers. CBS2's Hazel Sanchez spoke with ...

The woodpecker finches of the Galpagos Islands show no sign of learning their considerable tool-using skill by copying each other. The finches poke twigs or cactus spines into crevices to dig out ...

During his famous voyage to the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin noticed that the finches differed markedly from island to island. Each group had uniquely shaped bills that helped them feed on the ...

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, ...

Darwin's finches are icons of evolution. Now, researchers have discovered how quickly they can evolve into a new species: with the help of an outside bird, a new species can develop in as little as ...

Still looking for your first pine siskin or purple finch of the winter? Or maybe one of those perky, ever-busy red-breasted nuthatches? Well, you can likely forget about them. They'll probably not ...

A Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes Big Apple bird-singing competitions, federal officials ...