It can be tricky to ID a house finch vs purple finch — here are the field marks and differences to look for when you see a ...

By far, the most regular brown bird on our feeder is the female house finch. The male has a pink head and breast and the female is a drab brown. Look for the conical, seed-cracking bill.

House finches and purple finches are both small birds which are native to North America. Both species have stunning red and ...

To many of us, all sparrows look alike — little brown birds. But if we can see them ... longspurs and various winter finches: redpolls, pine siskins, pine grosbeaks, crossbills and maybe ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...