Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites ...

Still looking for your first pine siskin or purple finch of the winter? Or maybe one of those perky, ever-busy red-breasted nuthatches? Well, you can likely forget about them. They'll probably not ...

Conversations with friends have an ease that is hard to replicate with someone you have just met—often replies come more ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A bird-smuggling suspect was stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday when live finches were found stuffed into hair curlers. CBS2's Hazel Sanchez spoke with ...

Fill a finch feeder with nyjer thistle seed to attract goldfinches. Add the best finch feeders to your yard to see flocks of ...

If you have a bird feeder in the continental United States, you have almost certainly been visited by house finches. On both sides of the Mississippi their hungry flocks coat feeders like displays of ...

If songbirds could appear on "The Masked Singer" reality TV competition, zebra finches would likely steal the show. That's because they can rapidly memorize the signature sounds of at least 50 ...

It goes a little something like this: A young male zebra finch, whose father taught him a song, shared that song with a brother, with the two youngsters then creating new tunes based on dad’s ...

A Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes Big Apple bird-singing competitions, federal officials ...

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. If songbirds could appear on ...