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The seed mixture in the UK known as British Finch & Mule is their basic diet. Since the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 , it has been illegal to capture, attempt to capture or sell any British bird, and only those on Schedule 3 Part 1, may be sold if they are closed ringed and proof can be given that they were bred in captivity.
The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is also called the European siskin, common siskin or just siskin.Other (archaic) names include black-headed goldfinch, [2] barley bird and aberdevine. [3]
The European goldfinch, appearing in pictures of the Madonna and Christ child, represents the foreknowledge Jesus and Mary had of the Crucifixion. Examples include the Madonna del cardellino or Madonna of the Goldfinch , painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael in about 1505–6, in which John the Baptist offers a European goldfinch to ...
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A painting by British artist George Stubbs is expected to sell for up to £2 million ($2.5 million) in London next week, as it comes to auction for the first time in more than 50 years.. The 18th ...
Lawrence's goldfinch is known for its wandering habits. It breeds from about Shasta County, California to northern Baja California, largely in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and in the Baja highlands, but also sometimes as far down as the coast; its highest breeding altitude is about 8,800 ft (2,700 m) on Mount Pinos.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on ending the war and had ...
The Goldfinch (1654), by Carel Fabritius; The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt, in which Fabritius' painting features The Goldfinch (2019), based on the novel; Distelfink, a goldfinch motif in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art