The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada,” by Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. Young, published in 2024, is ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia is warning people who like to feed birds to be on the lookout. An eye disease that can prove ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

"In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, I showed that changes in the beaks of Darwin's finches lead to changes in the songs they sing, and I speculated that, because Darwin's ...

A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for sunflower seeds appears sick. He’s less active, and when he ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

The study showed that populations don’t lose their “evolvability,” even if conditions remain the same for many generations.

The Grants study the evolution of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands. The birds have been named for Darwin, in part, because he later theorized that the 13 distinct species were all ...

At our cabin in Pebble Creek Valley north of Silverthorne, located at 9,450 feet in elevation, we have several platform ...