The former Indiana sheriff, who earlier this month pleaded guilty to 27 felonies, oversaw the emergency service providers he admittedly stole millions from.

In the winter, cardinals are known to frequent feeders and forage with mixed flocks of dark-eyed juncos, American tree sparrows, purple finches and rufous-sided towhees, per the Indiana DNR.

Roger Tory Peterson described them as sparrows dipped in raspberry juice. What a wonderful image of a purple finch, which is ...

Something looked a little off at the birdfeeders. I get more house finches at my feeders than I can count, but as I entered the living room and glanced out ...

Highly sexually dimorphic with males pink and females brown. Generally lighter pink than other Haemorhous finches, with distinctive fine streaking on the undertail coverts. Male: a bright pinkish ...

House finches, such as this adult male, can be common visitors to hummingbird feeders. By Gary Phillips For The Sun News The bird-breeding season continues in our area, although some species are ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

She lacks the distinct pale eyebrow found on the male. Identifying the male and female house from other Carpodacus finches requires care. The male house differs from the male purple finch not only ...

Australian finches' bill colors come from small genetic variations affecting how they process dietary pigments.

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

Malta has long come under fire for allowing the trapping of protected finches and in September the European Court of Justice ruled that the practice is illegal. BLM said the aim of the campaign is ...