Mastodawn

Going for the alt theme for #BirdoftheDay of #Finches and this House Finch tucking into the grass seeds. #Birds 🪶 #ECK

Elaborate courtship dances in male zebra #finches function primarily as indicators of superior physical health and motor skills rather than serving as markers of general intelligence.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Ethology #CognitiveScience #Ornithology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/ebio04172601.html

If birds are fancy dancers, are they smarter, too?

Researchers investigate the link between male birds’ elaborate displays of courtship and their cognitive abilities

ChrQue Apr 13

Chaffinch / Buchfink (Biblis, Germany)

#birds #chaffinch #finches #vögel #buchfink #songbirdd

moctopus Apr 7

A Pine siskin and an American goldfinch fighting over a feeder.

#nature #naturephotography #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #goldfinch #finch #finches #fight

moctopus Apr 7

Some American goldfinches figuring out first dibs.

#nature #naturephotography #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #finch #finches #goldfinch

hlkfotos.com Apr 4

Small birds in flight haha what do I look like, a person with reflexes? Here's a finch holding nice and still. #BirdOfTheDay #Finches 📷🌿🪶

earthling Apr 4

House-warming … a female house finch carries a twig to her nest inside a vent on a home in Seattle, Washington, US.

Photograph: Manuel Valdes/AP

#photography
#birds
#finches

Frank Apr 4

Some #Finches for #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2y74so56r53rorbit3n66wtp/post/3minlgeo75k2m

Adrian Riskin

Mar 11

Can you find the teensy lil bird in the rose bush? I always think of these as finches but I don't really know what they are. They flit around in small packs of three to twenty. Or flocks, whatever.

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #LosAngeles #Finches