T he male has reddish forehead, breast and rump; a female house finch is streaked gray and brown above, with a lighter underside. Both sexes have brown-streaked bellies. These birds measure 5 3/4 ...

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for sunflower seeds appears sick. He’s less active, and when he perches, he gapes his beak open and closed, over and over, like ...

Along with purple and house finches, Cassin’s finches fall under the genus Haemorhous, with haemo being a reference to the ...

Sometimes this is obvious; male house finches are red, while females are brown and streaky. Male turkeys have alien blue and red heads and enormous fanned tails, while females are brown and lack ...

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for sunflower seeds appears sick. He’s less active, and when he perches, he gapes his beak open and closed, over and over, like ...

House finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) frequently come to my tube bird feeder because of the small openings that permit black oil sunflower seeds to be easily reached, and because of their ...

A classic bird identification challenge is separating House from Cassin’s Finches. Pictured are House Finches. The male House Finch has heavy streaking on the flanks that is lacking or faint on ...

The male House Finch is a noticeably red bird in the Austin area. It’s not completely red like the male Northern Cardinal and male Summer Tanager, though.

The House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) is unquestionably one of the most common, although lesser-known birds in North America, occurring in every state in the Union.This was not always the case ...

I used to lead springtime bird-watching trips to the Kerrville area, where we’d wake up in the mornings to the bubbly, albeit raspy, melodies of male house finches — "chirp-a-de-chirpy-chirp ...

In a recent study, researchers estimated 862 million birds in the sparrow family have been lost since 1970, comprising the single largest proportion of the 3 billion birds lost overall.. House ...

The male house finch will have a rose red color around its head and upper breast with brown streaks on their back, tail, and belly. The female is brown with streaks in the same locations as the male.