How rare a Gouldian Finch ? Gouldian Finches are Australia's most spectacularly colored grass finches, and are perhaps the ...

If you want to keep birds coming to your garden year after year, try planting some self-seeding flowers to provide yearly ...

Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

Instinct does play a role in nest-building, but so much more seems to be involved. Entwined with instinct are reason, ...

Not all brightly colored birds are in the tropics. The U.S. has its own fair share of colorful avian friends and you can even ...

For a reddish-beaked bird called the zebra finch, sexiness is color-coded. Males have beaks that range from light orange to dark red. But to females, a male's colored bill may simply be hot, or not, ...

Cottage gardens are both comforting and whimsical. And, if you add a host of bird species, they become pure magic. Here are ...

The moment that Rocco’s spirit left earth, the cardinal was at our feeder,” said Bowersock. “Whereas, the Commonwealth of Virginia has not selected any official bird, which action has been taken by ...

Washington's state bird is the Willow Goldfinch, a flash of brilliant yellow that turns up in backyard feeders, weedy fields, ...

If you have invested considerable time in cultivating a pretty garden for the spring, it can be disheartening when birds fail to show up. However, there may be good news. Specialists suggest you can ...