Who knew you couldn't keep house finches in the house?

House finches are one of the few birds who feed their young only plant matter.

But very little data is available about the nesting habits of house finches.

Studying an epidemic in house finches could be used as a model for humans.

House finches are aggressive enough to drive other birds away from places such as feeders.

House finches die within minutes after eating the seeds.

The only house finches to have this disease are those introduced to the eastern United States.

I have city friends with house finches feasting on the weeds in their window boxes.

More likely, they are house finches, a similar but distinct species, introduced into New York in the 1940's.

It was built post 1913 to house finches, budgerigars and canaries.

Hundreds of affected house finches have been reported.

A few years later the epidemic that started in the mid-Atlantic states spread to the entire eastern population of house finches.

House finches, native to the Southwest, were introduced into the Northeast bird population in 1940.

As soon as they left, house finches arrived.

House finches, pigeons, starlings love that kind of habitat.

It is possible then, that this condition is relatively widespread in the Ontario population of house finches.

A review of the house finches of the subgenus Burrica.

House finches at the time were called "Hollywood finches".

Most songbirds are resistant except for the wild house finches and some similar species in North America.

In a manipulation experiment, female house finches were shown to prefer males with brighter red patches.

The starlings, house finches and red-tail hawks do fine," she said.

The house finches are the worst.

However, in the case of the house finch, the female house finches select for males based on their likelihood to be a good parent.

It is believed that these house finches are less resistant to the disease because they were introduced and were highly inbred.

Sizeable populations of smaller birds, including warblers, sparrows, and house finches, are also common.

This bird belongs to the American Carpodacus genus, together with the House finch Carpodacus mexicanus.

Mycoplasma gallisepticum is the primary cause of an outbreak of conjunctivitis among house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) in eastern North America.

In February 1994, house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) with mild to severe conjunctivitis were reported at bird feeding stations in Maryland and Virginia.

In this study, three separate groups of laboratory-raised house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) were raised hearing the local song dialect, a foreign song dialect, or no song.

As in many sexually dichromatic species in which males are brightly colored, female House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) show a subdued expression of the same coloration as males.

M. gallisepticum infection in house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) causes conjunctivitis with the symptoms of periocular swelling, swollen eyelids, ocular and nasal discharge, impaired vision, depression, and weight loss.

The effect of parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) on the reproductive success of a recently established population of House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) was studied at St. Catharines, Ontario, during 1983-1985.

Macronyssidae) on the reproductive biology of the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) in east-central Alabama, U.S.A. Mites were absent from nests for the first half of the breeding season, but after their initial appearance they increased in number and were present in almost all nests.