Middleton wrote the species monograph for the Birds of North America series. Goldfinches are in Minnesota year-round, perhaps more appreciated in winter when they add variety and sporadic quantity ...

Welcoming wildlife to the yard is one of the best bits of having a thriving garden full of plants and resources to support a ...

Don’t take the birds in your backyard for granted. Beyond eating bugs or invasive plant seeds, backyard birds provide people with joy and wonder, said Geoff LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count ...

Their nesting seasons over, ruby-throated hummingbirds, purple martins, orchard orioles and several other migratory songbirds in Georgia already are embarking on their fall journeys to winter ...

Although the authors noted Lesser Goldfinches appear at backyard bird feeders often, when they looked at how bird feeders might affect establishment, surprisingly, bird feeders played a minimal ...

American goldfinches have been crowding around bird feeders this month but are barely recognizable for lack of their golden yellow plumage. The birds migrate to Texas from breeding grounds in ...

Birds that don’t fly as far, called mid-distance migrants, spend the winter a few hundred miles away, and these include blue jays and goldfinches, birds we see all winter. But we don’t see the ...

Although the authors noted Lesser Goldfinches appear at backyard bird feeders often, when they looked at how bird feeders might affect establishment, surprisingly, bird feeders played a minimal ...

Although the authors noted Lesser Goldfinches appear at backyard bird feeders often, when they looked at how bird feeders might affect establishment, surprisingly, bird feeders played a minimal role ...

The sunflower hearts — shelled sunflower seeds — that we both offer are happily devoured, but they are not the key ingredient in the birds’ survival. What the American goldfinches ...