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American Goldfinch

Description:

Yellow bird with black wings and tail. Flies in an interesting motion; flaps a bit then coasts a bit in a long wave pattern. Likes sunflower seeds, apparently!

Habitat:

Urban vegetable garden.

Notes:

Been here 5 years and never seen one of these before!

1 Species ID Suggestions

KevinRoss
KevinRoss 12 years ago
American Goldfinch
Carduelis tristis American Goldfinch


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2 Comments

HeatherMiller
HeatherMiller 12 years ago

Don't cut your sunflowers. Goldfiinches LOVE dried sunflowers still in the sunflower flower head. They might be migrating because I do not usually see them either in Altanta, GA. I have been here 7 years and saw these within the past 2 weeks.
You can feed them seed in a feeder, but they love my sunflowers too.
Male from yesterday: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/718...
Female from August: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/714...

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Nice picture.

apinstein
Spotted by
apinstein

Decatur, Georgia

Spotted on Jul 28, 2011
Submitted on Jul 28, 2011

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