Male house finches are usually marked with red, but sometimes those red areas are replaced with orange or yellow or some of both. The red pigment in the feathers is affected by what the finch eats ...

Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ...

One other example of “birds not of a feather nesting together” does ... Although martins are bigger than sparrows, the house sparrow, as a finch, has a more sizeable beak.

Kellie Joyce spotted a house finch on May 1, and immediately knew it was unusual. "The house finch came in with a flock of about 20 to 25 purple finches, and along with that came in about 50 ...

One other example of “birds not of a feather nesting together” involves ... Although martins are bigger than sparrows, the house sparrow, as a finch, has a more sizeable beak.