Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to research published today in the Proceedings of ...

Female Gouldian Finches of all colors prefer the red-headed males, who also happen to be more dominant in the social hierarchy. So why hasn't the black-headed type disappeared?

Redheads top the pecking order by flaunting it. University of New South Wales news release. December 30, 2005. Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical ...

Studies from Macquarie University in Australia have shown the red-headed finches have the apparent advantage. Female Gouldian Finches of all colors prefer the red-headed males, who also happen to ...

The study shows that the red-headed finches are more dominant and preferred by female finches. Yet the reason the black-headed finches haven’t disappeared is due to the fact there are disadvantages to ...

"Red forms are not as common in the wild, so the counterbalancing pressure reduces the advantage of being red. That’s super cool." The researchers zeroed in on a particular gene called follistatin ...

We had a newcomer at our birdfeeder today. It looked like a sparrow, but we thought its head had a touch of red. It was exciting, since our winter birds left long ago. Except for a pair of ...

Tours to see Minnesota's largest colony of nesting Red-headed Woodpeckers will be offered June 20. The woodpeckers and other prairie birds will be seen at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve.

Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to research published today in the Proceedings of ...

The Gouldian Finch has maintained three distinct colour types for thousands of generations – finches with red heads, black heads and yellow heads – something that is extremely rare. Now, scientists ...