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European Goldfinch
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Carduelis carduelis
AKA: European goldfinch
A highly coloured finch with a bright red face and yellow wing patch. Sociable, often breeding in loose colonies, they have a delightful liquid twittering song and call. Their long fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels. Increasingly they are visiting birdtables and feeders. In winter many UK goldfinches migrate as far south as Spain.
Where does it live?
Breeding
Likes trees and bushes with areas of tall weeds nearby. Often breeds near man in parks, gardens, nurseries, orchards and churchyards. In wider countryside likes woodland edges and heaths and commons with gorse and hawthorn.
Wintering
Similar to breeding habitat, but forms into flocks which may range over waste land, coastal fields and flats, and rough pasture. Anywhere with plenty of thistles, burdock and teasels.
Where to see it
Anywhere there are scattered bushes and trees, rough ground with thistles and other seeding plants. Likes orchards, parks, gardens, heathland and commons. Less common in upland areas and most numerous in southern England.
What does it eat?
Seeds and insects in summer.
What does it sound like?
A liquid, twittering song with trills; twittering calls
When to see it
All year round.
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Hi Catalin,
Great capture!! Beautiful bird. Focus is a little soft. Also, I would have cropped tighter as the pixels surrounding the bird dont enhance the pic, also I would have cleaned out the 2nd line under the bird as it does nothing for the picture.
Keep them coming!
Liezel
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Keep up the good work!