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, ...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, and orange. In a study published in Current Biology, ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

Catch the movement of a bird in a woodland canopy, a fallow field or at the summer feeder and chances are good that its identity can be told by the presence of yellow in its dress — either overall or ...

Bright yellow with black wings, this beauty is found across the Indian subcontinent in woodlands and gardens. Known for its lemon-yellow plumage, it’s commonly seen in North America’s meadows and open ...

Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...