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European Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis

Photo by Janice Parr
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Field Notes

Description:

Small sparrow sized bird with vivid yellow markings on their wings and a red face with white and black head. Very social birds you will usually see several together.

Habitat:

The cafe down by the beach where we live grows sunflowers all around the edge of the garden and every year they are invaded by these lovely birds.

Notes:

I have already had a spotting of this bird last year but I so love them and this one looked a little bit tidier than last time.

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European Goldfinch

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Comments (10)
Janice Parr
Thank you AntonioGinjaGinja, it is so sad that people still want to put wild birds into cages.
AntónioGinjaGinja
Beautiful photos and gorgeous little bird,they existe here in Portugal but because of human caches for birc cage lovers put them in a serious problem and is now much more dificult to spott this cute bird,congrats and thanks for sharing
The MnMs
Is so nice! thanks for sharing! in my country they are relatively common. They are called "jilgueros" :-)
Janice Parr
Thank you Atul and Ashish, most of the time Ashish it was the sunflower seeds, I just never managed to get a shot of the seed in its beak.
Ashish
Interesting to see on what its feeding on..Seeds of Sunflower or Pest insects..
Ashish
Cute colourful bird..!!
Atul
nice colors on the bird and great spotting

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