In her watercolor triptych, Rosalie Haizlett celebrates the vibrant colors and details found in the feathers of common—and ...

Male house finches are usually marked with red, but sometimes those red areas are replaced with orange or yellow or some of both. The red pigment in the feathers is affected by what the finch eats ...

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my ... Lastly, the reddish mating color on his head feathers appears fainter and lesser than the other male finches.

DEAR JOAN: A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my ... Lastly, the reddish mating color on his head feathers appears fainter and lesser than the other male finches.