Q: My pair of caged finches have managed to mate and hatch eggs, but the male relentlessly plucks feathers out of the female. Is this jealousy or territorial behavior? A: Feather picking can be a ...

That reddish finch at your feeders is an amazing bird, capable of great feats of resilience in the face of some very hard times. Consider its recent history: Its ancestors were netted for years along ...

For years, PETA has received complaints about conditions endured by finches locked in a small barren cage in a retirement community in Cockeysville. Those at PETA said they had offered to relocate the ...

A Sugar Land reader emailed a description of a sparrow-size, reddish-headed bird in her yard. She wondered if it could be an escaped caged bird. An email from a Hill Country couple recounted their ...

Birds learn to sing in much the same way that humans learn to talk — they absorb vocabulary and rules of usage through imitation. But a new paper by neurobiologist Partha Mitra suggests that in birds, ...

That men mostly of Guyanese descent brought caged finches to Queens parks and made bets on which one would tweet fifty times first was news to us. Now we find U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service authorities ...