House finches are very social birds that enjoy the company of their owners. Many of these brightly colored birds like to perch on fingers or even receive a pet on the head or body. Given that ...

(Metro Creative) — Though cats and dogs may garner the most attention, birds are popular pets as well. But which birds make good pets? Finches and parrots are the birds most often chosen as pets.

Cats and dogs may be the most common house pets, but birds count for more than 12 million pets across the country. So if you are considering buying a bird, store owner Pierre Brooks suggests getting ...

Q: My 12-year-old daughter wants a pet bird. Can you recommend what kind? Something that's not too hard to care for, please. A: Zebra and society finches are the "easy keepers" of the finch group — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re on the hunt for a pet bird, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of options out there. After all, birds come in a ...

Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...