Purple finches and house finches are similar in appearance, as males of both have a lot of red on the head. This is a house finch. In your photo (above), the bird is perched at an angle, ...

We had a newcomer at our birdfeeder today. It looked like a sparrow, but we thought its head had a touch of red. It was exciting, since our winter birds left long ago. Except for a pair of ...

Learn more about the house finch. ... Male: the breast, rump, and front of the head are typically red, ... The red breast is clearly demarcated from a whitish belly with dark streaks.

The House Finch is a medium sized finch with brown-streaked wings and back, and streaked buff underparts. Males have a bright red-pink head, throat and rump with some birds showing color variation ...

The Gouldian finch can have one of three main head colors: black, red, or yellow. Typically, they also have a black or red face, a yellow underside, and a purple chest. Their faces and rumps are ...

The Gouldian Finch has maintained three distinct colour types for thousands of generations – finches with red heads, black heads and yellow heads – something that is extremely rare. Now, scientists ...

Over a door in the quiet yard of a historic home in Newburyport, a drama is unfolding. A house finch couple built a nest, the female laid her eggs, and then a brown-headed cowbird showed up. Since ...

took 100 red-headed and 100 black-headed female birds and mated them with a male of the same head colour and a male with the different head colour. They found females in mixed pairs produced broods ...

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Dr Pryke found that if the female mates with a finch of different head colour, she attempts to overcome this genetic incompatability by over-producing sons - as much as four males to one female.

The findings published in Nature Communications reveal that a gene, called follistatin, regulates melanin to produce either red or black-headed finches. However, the yellow-headed type, which make up ...