Mavis Staples

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

American Musician

Donald Hall

I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.

American Poet

Peter R. Grant

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

American Scientist

Finches are small in size, making 'small' a keyword to remember.

Small Bird

Remember that finches often have a strong beak, useful for eating seeds.

Beak Strength

Finches are known to be pets, indicating they're typically non-threatening.

Pet Potential

 just going to stay on that mark stay on that farm I try to make as many passes on that bar until I get one of them just to make a mistake and to jump off my stuff that's the name of the game you know when you see marks like that on the sounder you know it's not one fish it's not to finch they're not deep if they

Fishing Tips: How to...

 He just knew that he wanted to have a career as a scientist and he started to collect data. Mainly he knew that he hated medicine because the sight of blood made him sick so he had to have an alternative career path. So he started collecting data. And he collected many things, including his famous finches.

Naomi Oreskes: Why we...

 when the baby finch hears the songs sung around it and commits them to memory. The bird starts to vocalize during the motor learning phase, practicing until it can match the song it memorized. As the bird learns, hearing the tutor’s song over and over again is helpful— up to a point.

The surprising reason...

 currents converge are famed for the unique animal species found nowhere else on earth including marine iguanas giant tortoises flightless cormorants and a diverse variety of finches the islands have two airports Isla baltra and Isla San Cristobal which are serviced by

The Galapagos Islands...

 wolf island the climate here is fiercely hot and dry finches would love to eat their favorite foods seeds but the drought conditions just don't produce enough so what happens as you can see here is that sharp beaked ground finches

"Vampires" and Boobies PIPE...

 working very well today there is the red beak the black beak and the orange feet so very important to identify that and the Indigo birds are also brood parasites and we just double-check who his African fire finch

Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...

 The Honeycreepers are a distinct Hawaiian family of birds that descended from a Eurasian rose finch and these species diversified into more than 50 Honeycreeper species in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper

Saving Hawaii’s Birds...

 island the climate here is fiercely hot and dry finches would love to eat their favorite food seeds but the drought conditions just don't produce enough so what happens as you can see here is that

 It was a photograph -- not of space-time, but of an eclipse, with a dot there rather than there. And the evidence for evolution? Some rocks and some finches. And parallel universes?

David Deutsch: A new way...

 A bit like a modern-day version of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos. And like Darwin's finches, the mice in each separate park have started evolving,