A UC Berkeley study shows that when zebra finches hear the call of another zebra finch, they have a mental representation of ...

Winter 2021-22 should not be an irruption year, which would send finch species like the evening grosbeak from the arboreal forests of northern Canada south as far as backyard feeders in Pennsylvania.

Using data on four species of Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Islands, researchers led by McGill University have confirmed a long-standing hypothesis that species diversity evolves through ...

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 islands ...

New research from CU Boulder confirms that there are not, in fact, multiple species of Redpoll Finches, as previously thought For birders struggling to figure out what kind of Redpoll they’re watching ...

To put it simply, volcanoes erupt while bird populations irrupt. An “irruption” is described as “a dramatic, irregular migration of large numbers of birds to an area where they are not typically found ...

The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s ...

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridisation, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought. A team of ...