Q: My pair of caged finches have managed to mate and hatch eggs, but the male relentlessly plucks feathers out of the female. Is this jealousy or territorial behavior? A: Feather picking can be a ...

That reddish finch at your feeders is an amazing bird, capable of great feats of resilience in the face of some very hard times. Consider its recent history: Its ancestors were netted for years along ...

For years, PETA has received complaints about conditions endured by finches locked in a small barren cage in a retirement community in Cockeysville. Those at PETA said they had offered to relocate the ...

A Sugar Land reader emailed a description of a sparrow-size, reddish-headed bird in her yard. She wondered if it could be an escaped caged bird. An email from a Hill Country couple recounted their ...

Birds learn to sing in much the same way that humans learn to talk — they absorb vocabulary and rules of usage through imitation. But a new paper by neurobiologist Partha Mitra suggests that in birds, ...