In pondering my last ten years in the wild bird specialty business, I know northern Nevada customers’ favorite bird has to be the Lesser Goldfinch. When there is an abundance of goldfinch at feeders, ...

Washington's state bird is the Willow Goldfinch, a flash of brilliant yellow that turns up in backyard feeders, weedy fields, and wetland edges across the state. Learn how to identify it, when ...

It's that time of year when feeder hosts ask, "Where are the goldfinches?" Be assured that goldfinch populations, estimated at 42 million, face no serious threat. While goldfinches wander the ...

Goldfinches didn't get the nesting memo. The other birds did. They know to build their nests and start laying eggs in spring. The American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) waits until summer is in full ...

Believe it or not, this is an adult male American goldfinch that has swapped his bright yellow breeding plumage for a far less provocative winter costume. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Anyone who ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

This brightly-coloured finch looks somewhat more exotic than the usual garden bird fare we're used to in Britain, but is a pretty common visitor, especially to those places with ready seed supplies ...

On a sunny July morning, I woke up extra early with a bird on my mind. No surprise there. But this bird was different. I'd seen it before but never in the United States. It was time to do something ...

Freud never said that sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, but whoever did so was right. Can an image with considerable iconic suggestiveness be only itself? Can a goldfinch be only a bird? The famous ...