Attracting finches to your garden is fairly easy if ... including Nyjer seeds and seeds from various flowers. Plant seed-producing flowers like asters, coneflowers, zinnias, poppies, marigolds ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

Each flower offers something unique, whether it's nectar for hummingbirds, seeds for finches, or a habitat for songbirds. Let ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands ... have become adapted for different diets: seeds, insects, flowers, the blood of seabirds, and leaves.

In particular, changes to the size and shape of the beaks have enabled the different species to specialise in different types of food: seeds, insects, cactus flowers and fruits or even bird blood. The ...