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Natural distrust
Photo Information
Copyright: Vinicio Tullio (vinicio) (158)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006
Categories: Birds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-04-19 22:51
Viewed: 516
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Goldfinch or European Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis, is a small passerine bird of the finch family.

The Goldfinch breeds across Europe and most of Asia in open, partially wooded lowlands. It is resident in the milder west of its range, but migrates from colder regions. It will also make local movements, even in the west, to escape bad weather. This bird is a rare vagrant to eastern North America. In 2005, one was spotted and photographed on a bird feeder in Michigan.

The Goldfinch is 12-13.5 cm (4-5 inches) long and weighs 16 to 22 grams. Sexes are alike, with a red face, black and white head, warm brown upperparts, white underparts with buff flanks and breast patches, and black and yellow wings. The ivory-coloured bill is long and pointed, and the tail is forked. Juveniles have a plain head and a greyer back but are unmistakable due to the yellow wing stripe.

The food is small seeds such as thistles (the Latin name is from carduus, thistle) and teasels, but insects are also taken when feeding young. The song is a pleasant silvery twittering. They nest in the outer twigs of tall leafy trees, laying four to six eggs which hatch in 11-14 days.

In the winter they group together to form flocks of up to about 40 birds.

The call is a melodic tickeLIT, and the song is a pleasant tinkling medley of trills and twiters, but always including the trisyllabic call phrase or a teLLIT-teLLIT-teLLIT. In earlier times, The Goldfinch was kept as a cagebird for its song.
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  • roges Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 590 W: 0 N: 497] (3004)
  • [2009-04-20 1:52]

Ciao Vinicio !
Bella cattura, molto ben suonato.
Un ottimo collage presentato.
Mi piace un sacco di colori e contrasto loro.
Benvenuti a TN e desidero con tutto il mio cuore, buona fortuna, tanti punti e piacevole commenti.
Buona giornata,
Adrian

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  • lousat Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1971 W: 6 N: 5513] (19621)
  • [2009-04-20 4:11]

Ciao Vinicio,accidenti questo e' un gran bel lavoro! Per essere un esordiente ti stai comportando davvero alla grande,un quartetto di scatti magistrali e di gran tecnica fotografica,io proprio nel campo dei volatili ho il mio debole,proprio non riesco a beccarli..hehe...complimentoni!! Luciano.

Ari ciao Vinicio, bel collage con un delizioso uccellino in quattro pose diverse, favolosa l'ultima, anch'io come Luciano non riesco a farne una che è una, devo avere qualcosa che non va nell'odore che mi scappano via a un chilometro di distanza, mah, e tu me ne metti quattro in una volta sola...
Bravissimo, complimenti, ciao Silvio

Ciao Vinicio, an excellent and funny collage on its behaviour of a pretty red-faced.
TFS and cheers,
Bayram

Ciao Vinicio. Questa presentazione, alternativa alle "normalità" di TN, è molto gradevole. Quattro fotogrammi tecnicamente eccellenti.

Roberto

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