Bird feeders can be dangerous for bears and can lead to bear-human conflicts. Birdseed has lots of calories and are very ...

January became a month where we could not ignore the weather. December ended with mild days and though we received rain, we had much less-than-normal snowfall. The rain dissipated much of the snow on ...

Cassin’s finches eat sunflower seeds both with and without the shells. Occasionally, they stop at a tube of thistle seed. While mostly seed eaters, they consume some insect larvae in summer.

Because the drought reduced the number of seeds and finches with bigger beaks were able to eat the larger and harder seeds so more of them survived.

Stan Tekiela examines the irruptive behavior of winter finches and owls, exploring scientific theories and addressing common ...

Q. We feed the birds but are being driven to bankruptcy by the squirrels feeding on the seed. My neighbor says that you use ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands ... The ancestral finch was a ground-dwelling, seed-eating finch. After the burst of speciation in the Galapagos, a total ...