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Mid April and a day spent in Worcestershire on the lookout for the Common Kestrel.
The Goldfinch is a colourful Finch with a bright red face and yellow wing patch. It's a very sociable bird, often breeding in loose groups. It has a delightful twittering song and call. Their fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels.
Mid April and a day spent in Worcestershire on the lookout for the Common Kestrel.
The Goldfinch is a colourful Finch with a bright red face and yellow wing patch. It's a very sociable bird, often breeding in loose groups. It has a delightful twittering song and call. Their fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels.
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Mid April and a day spent in Worcestershire on the lookout for the Common Kestrel.
The Goldfinch is a colourful Finch with a bright red face and yellow wing patch. It's a very sociable bird, often breeding in loose groups. It has a delightful twittering song and call. Their fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels.
Chardonneret élégant
Carduelis carduelis - European Goldfinch
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide 2nd Edition with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The European goldfinch or goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia. It has been introduced to other areas including Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay.
The goldfinch has a red face and a black-and-white head. The back and flanks are buff or chestnut brown. The black wings have a broad yellow bar. The tail is black and the rump is white. The female is very similar to the male but has a slightly smaller red area on the face.
The goldfinch is often depicted in Italian renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child. Goldfinches are commonly kept and bred in captivity around the world because of their distinctive appearance and pleasant song. In Britain during the 19th century many thousands of goldfinches were trapped each year to be sold as cage-birds. One of the earliest campaigns of the Society for the Protection of Birds was directed against this trade.
In the poem The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh, the goldfinch is one of the rare glimpses of beauty in the life of an elderly Irish farmer:
"The goldfinches on the railway paling were worth looking at
A man might imagine then
Himself in Brazil and these birds the birds of paradise" (wikipedia)
An adult Goldfinch at the East Coast Nature Reserve, Wicklow, Ireland.
Goldfinch in the garden today
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In the UK, an estimated 1.2 million pairs of goldfinches breed each year. While there are no specific data on goldfinches in Kent, the Woodland Trust and RSPB report that goldfinches are thriving and their population has more than doubled since the 1970s
(European) goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) perched ona branch.
Szczygieł (Carduelis carduelis) siedzący na gałązce.
Москва, Орехово
Москва, Орехово
