See photos of bird species with purple feathers. Purple colored bird species brighten up the skies and landscapes across ...

Species such as house wrens, bluebirds, chickadees, and titmice readily take to birdhouses, while others like purple martins ...

Even from inside the house the app identifies the bird. A purple finch! Yes, a purple finch! That’s what I thought that lively song was, but we haven’t had purple finches here at the house in five ...

The state has seen a 95 percent decline in purple martins over the last 50 years, according to the Maine Department of Inland ...

The bird feeder the purple finches like is situated near the redbud, and sometimes these birds perch on the tree where their deep colors contrast with the pastel colors of the tree’s blooms.

The current record for the number of birds observed in my yard in during December is 31 species and that record was set just last year. On my first day of observations, I managed to pick up 18 species ...

Finches come in various colors, from shades of purple, red, black, orange, yellow, blue, brown, and more. Many have more than one color. Finches can also vary between genders of specific species.

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum.

Purple finches are robust, chunky birds which are most often identified by the male’s rich, wine and raspberry colored plumage. Females, also beautiful, are adorned in a rich combination of ...

Purple finches like to build their nests in conifers. Providing plenty of trees and shrubs will attract finches, as will a finch feeder. Sparrows.

FIRST, LET ME preface this column by saying that I have been keeping one bird feeder with sunflower seeds out during the day. It is typically emptied out before dark ...

Sharon Toney-Finch is charged with four counts related to defrauding military charities and the VA and lying about receiving a Purple Heart. WHITE PLAINS — Sharon Toney-Finch, the Newburgh-based ...