Q: My pair of caged finches have managed to mate and hatch eggs, but the male relentlessly plucks feathers out of the female. Is this jealousy or territorial behavior? A: Feather picking can be a ...

For years, PETA has received complaints about conditions endured by finches locked in a small barren cage in a retirement community in Cockeysville. Those at PETA said they had offered to relocate the ...

House finches are some of the most numerous birds at my feeder right now, always there in cheery little groups of bright red males and subtly brown-streaked females. They are fun to take photos of ...

We are prone to pay scant attention to the ever-present house finches at our backyard bird feeders. They’re not the most eye-catching birds. But the males attract the females' attention with a bit of ...

That men mostly of Guyanese descent brought caged finches to Queens parks and made bets on which one would tweet fifty times first was news to us. Now we find U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service authorities ...

Birds learn to sing in much the same way that humans learn to talk — they absorb vocabulary and rules of usage through imitation. But a new paper by neurobiologist Partha Mitra suggests that in birds, ...