An aviary is ideal but choose the largest cage you can when keeping finches indoors. Finches can’t mimic human speech like some talking birds, but they are generally much quieter than other pet ...

Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones were quickly exhausted by the birds, leaving mainly large, tough seeds that the finches normally ignore. Under these drastically changing ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands ... from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." ...

Wolf Island, in the Galápagos, is remote and rarely visited. But this volcanic island is home to an unusual group of birds: vampire ground finches. Photographer Thomas P Peschak had the rare ...