In pondering my last ten years in the wild bird specialty business, I know northern Nevada customers’ favorite bird has to be the Lesser Goldfinch. When there is an abundance of goldfinch at feeders, ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

The American Goldfinch is the New Jersey State Bird, but many New Jerseyans have never seen one. One reason is that unless the bird is down visiting a thistle (Niger) seed feeder in someone’s yard or ...

With warmer weather on the way%2C be prepared for yellow-feathered goldfinches to arrive. Goldfinches molt their dull feathers and replace them with bright yellow ones in spring. The male goldfinches' ...

Quiz question: Name a bright yellow bird, one that seems invariably chipper, has an unusual diet, moves around in flocks of its own kind and lives among us in disguise all winter. If “male American ...