By June 11, five baby birds had hatched. According to the Golden Gate Audubon Society, they were house finches.” Submitting a picture: Send a high-resolution JPEG file with your comments and the ...

DEAR JOAN: Every spring I wedge some baskets onto the header under our patio roof. Pairs of house finches come and make nests and raise offspring. This year we had eight nests with 40 eggs.

House finches are found across North America, but Dr. Oh and his co-author, Alexander Badyaev of the University of Arizona, studied wild populations in Arizona. Plasma Exchange Therapy ...

A house finch couple built a nest ... The brown-headed cowbird hatched on or before May 21. The finch parents fed it, and the chick grew, and its fluffy baby-bird feathers started coming in.

House finches that frequent North American cities and towns are better at solving problems than their rural counterparts. They are able to solve new problems even when humans are around.

and colleagues studied two populations of the house finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, that have diverged significantly over the past 20 years. The scientists found predictable patterns in how a baby ...