“To me, the Cassin’s finch always seems brighter,” says Dusty Downey, conservation ranching manager at the Audubon Rockies.

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 ...

Typically, they also have a black or red face, a yellow underside, and a purple chest. Their faces and rumps are usually marked in blue. Male finches, known as cocks, are brighter in color than ...

The zebra finch bird is soft gray, with red eyes, "tear drop" markings (small black lines running straight down under each eye), and bright orange legs and beak. The male zebra finch has a deeper ...

The male purple finch is more of a dark purplish red color. An ornithologist once wrote that the purple finch looks as if it’s been dipped in raspberry juice. The brown feathering of the outer ...

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 ...

The eight pups were born when a male red wolf called Finch integrated with a wild wolf pack, after spending seven years in captivity. Finch was born and raised at Wolf Haven International in ...