The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s Ornithology Laboratory’s website “All About Birds.” However, not all sunflower seed ...

My grandmother reveled at the sight of bright yellow birds with black caps that attended the zinnias in her garden each summer. Wild canaries, she called them. What she didn’t know is that the only ...

The bright yellow American goldfinch is a favorite of backyard bird-watchers. Discover how to attract these birds with their ...

Mobs of American goldfinches are emptying feeders at a record pace. Most backyard bird watchers acknowledge that they haven't seen anything like it. Several weeks ago, the first big wave was made up ...

Goldfinches are like ketchup: First non'll come and then a lot'll. Apologies to Ogden Nash, who initially wrote, "The Catsup Bottle — First a little and then a lottle." And to Richard Armour, who ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. With common bird populations on the ...

Learn where nyjer seed comes from and what types of birds eat it. Plus, find out what's the difference between nyjer and ...

Not many species become "bird of the week" twice in one year, but the American goldfinch is a changeling, and so it earns the dual designation. The American goldfinch was bird of the week in late July ...

This is a real sentence that has been uttered multiple times in my household. Blame the bird feeders — all three of them (plus a bird bath and a hummingbird feeder, of course). I didn’t mean to become ...

Off and on this spring and summer, I've had the same query: Where are the goldfinches? While we have goldfinches in the Tri-State year-round, they aren't necessarily the same goldfinches. "Our" birds ...

On Oct. 22, I introduced my wonderful readers to the “Winter Finch Forecast” that is issued annually by the Finch Research ...