Tiny, gold and garrulous — today’s bird is the California prodigy misleadingly called the lesser goldfinch. If you’ve seen a group of little yellow birds eating seeds at a feeder, then you’ve likely ...

Get facts about goldfinch nests, including where and when the birds nest, how many eggs they lay, and what baby goldfinches eat.

Throughout Marin, there is a little yellow bird that the modern books miscall the lesser goldfinch. Miscall, because this bird is “lesser” in nothing but the insignificant comparison of size. I prefer ...

Knowing how to attract goldfinches to your backyard is about more than setting up any old bird feeder. These gorgeous songbirds have specific eating and nesting preferences. We talked to the experts ...

When so much of our world seems pretty bleak, with catastrophic fires raging across the state, our landscapes parched with no end in sight to our extreme drought, and our civility challenged much too ...

The vast majority of native bird nesting takes place in spring, right after the trees green up and the flowers start to bloom. The spring nesting season feels like a frantic rush to quickly build a ...