The Finchmasters - Finch Research Network

10/17/2026

Winter Finch Forecast Irruption Alert 2026 2027 (Central and Western areas)

We'd like to thanks everyone here in the Finches, Irruptions and Mast Crops community -- Without you this article would not have been possible!

By Caleb Centanni and Matt Young: OVERALL GENERAL FORECAST with notes on food crops and broken out finch forecasts for Central and Western regions of the North America and the United States (see Winter Finch Read More

09/27/2026

The 2026-27 Winter Finch Forecast is out!

Always an exciting time of the year!

https://finchnetwork.org/winter-finch-forecast-2026-2027

05/24/2026

Paper published!

Hooded Grosbeak Research this time

Flight call variation and vocal repertoire in the Hooded Grosbeak Hesperiphona abeillei

While they do have a larger vocal repertoire than Evening Grosbeak, the call type thing applies to this species as well, which is not surprising given its a sister taxa to Evening Grosbeak.

It's always nice to acknowledge accomplishments, and publishing a paper is a worthy reason to celebrate!

Not too bad, I think that's 6 papers published in the last 9-10 months. Many of them were my ideas/design, and then we put the team together.

Congrats team!

Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/.../fbirs.2026.1770412/full

04/22/2026

Finches!

About a month ago I went birding with Melanie Uhlir in South Otselic, Chenango County for finches and we had some good luck with Goldfinches, Pine Siskins, Purple Finches, Evening Grosbeaks, and Red Crossbills, including this male Red Crossbill we were able to save. It appeared that it wasn't actually hit, but a vehicle had driven over the top of it and it was stunned.

After about 40 minutes in the car the bird easily flew off and perched in a tree.