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The male and female American goldfinches travel together searching for suitable nest sites. The female goldfinch builds a nest made of twigs, rootlets, and plant stems, and usually 4 to 20 feet ...
Eastern goldfinch (American goldfinch) Spinus tristis tristis: 1935 [36] New Mexico: Greater roadrunner: Geococcyx californianus: 1949 [37] New York: Eastern bluebird: Sialia sialis: 1970 [38] North Carolina: Northern cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis: 1943 [39] North Dakota: Western meadowlark: Sturnella neglecta: 1970 [40] Northern Mariana ...
The American goldfinch is the state bird of Iowa and New Jersey, where it is called the eastern goldfinch, and Washington, where it is called the willow goldfinch. [37] It was chosen by schoolchildren in Washington in 1951.
The house finch is a moderate-sized finch, 12.5 to 15 cm (5 to 6 in) long, with a wingspan of 20 to 25 cm (8 to 10 in). Body mass can vary from 16 to 27 g (9 ⁄ 16 to 15 ⁄ 16 oz), with an average weight of 21 g (3 ⁄ 4 oz).
The lesser goldfinch was formally described by the American zoologist Thomas Say in 1822 under the binomial name Fringilla psaltria. [4] The specific epithet psaltria is Ancient Greek for a female harpist. [5] The type locality is Colorado Springs, Colorado. [6]
The basic plumage colour is brownish, sometimes greenish; many have considerable amounts of black, while white plumage is generally absent except as wing-bars or other signalling marks. Bright yellow and red carotenoid pigments are commonplace in this family, and thus blue structural colours are rather rare, as the yellow pigments turn the blue ...
Here's a link to Hinterland Who's Who – American Goldfinch. See the range section. (I don't want to mess with a featured article.) Modal Jig 15:37, 15 May 2011 (UTC) American Goldfinch also winter in southern BC, Canada.
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.