WE have reached the time of year when the winter visitors have all but departed and the influx of summer migrants is in full flow. Around Worcester, as I sit and write this article, particularly on ...

RECENT close-up views of a pair of bullfinches highlighted nature’s resourcefulness and my need to clear out an unsightly gutter, as it was there I observed both birds feeding on the seed heads of ...

An Azores bullfinch feeds on the buds of a native tree on São Miguel Island in the Azores. Anne Pinto-Rodrigues When conservation biologist Jaime Ramos began the fieldwork for his doctoral studies on ...

Bullfinches are so-called because of their characteristic large head and stocky body. With a similar derivation, their folk-names are bully or bull flinch (in Yorkshire), bull head, bulldog, bull ...