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Carduelis spinus
The Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. The upper parts are greyish green and the under parts grey-streaked white. Its wings are black with a conspicuous yellow wing bar, and the tail is black with yellow sides. The male has a mainly yellow face and breast, with a neat black cap. Female and young birds have a greyish green head and no cap.
In the Osprey Center in Loch Garten, Abernethy. They have placed many feeders around the place that atract the nearby woodland birds.
Spotted on Jun 21, 2013
Submitted on Aug 5, 2013
6 Comments
I learned a lot from your nice description. young birds are like female.. I looked for blue bird last winter, usually found female. (female isn't blue) and I learned young male is like female. I didn't know siskin is same like it. :))
Hi Harum! thanks for your comment. I was actually making a wild guess about the sexes..haha :-D..I am probably wrong so I will fix the comment :-)
hello! lovely birds! I found siskins end of last winter. sorry about nuisance, but third bird seemed male? perhaps my misunderstanding, have a quick look at this url (of mine).
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/316...
I love how you can tell how small these Siskins are by the side of the Chaffinch in your first photo Marta, they really are little cuties :-)
Hi beaker98! It was in the woods in Scotland. But in my home we have a feeder and we don´t see many birds coming often although they are close by. It may be because is not a garden but a terrace and it spooks them (?).
What a beautiful bird! I wish I could get something that colorful to my feeder We feed quite a few sparrows:) Nice shots.