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On closer inspection, male European goldfinches can often be distinguished by a larger, darker red mask that extends just behind the eye. The shoulder feathers are black, whereas they are brown on the female. In females, the red face does not extend past the eye. The ivory-coloured bill is long and pointed, and the tail is forked.
The male can signal his quality and fitness, both in the short term (current body condition) and long term (genes), through ornamentation (bill color and plumage). [30] If a female accepts the male as a mate, the pair will fly in wide circles, as the male warbles throughout the flight. [13]
The lesser goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) is a small finch in the genus Spinus native to the Americas. As is the case for most species in the genus Spinus , lesser goldfinch males have a black forehead, which females lack.
The female lays between 2 and 6 eggs. [20] [22] [29] The eggs are white or light grey or light blue, with small brown spots [20] [22] and they are approximately 16.5 mm by 12 mm in size. [13] [20] [22] Incubation takes between 10 and 14 days and is carried out entirely by the female. [12] [20] [22] The chicks are altricial and nidicolous. They ...
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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.
American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) male (left) and female (right) in Johnston County, North Carolina, USA. The finches have a near-global distribution, being found across the Americas, Eurasia and Africa, as well as some island groups such as the Hawaiian islands.
The genus Carduelis was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 by tautonomy based on Carl Linnaeus's specific epithet for the European goldfinch Fringilla carduelis. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The name carduelis is the Latin word for the European goldfinch.