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FAQ: The Basics Behind the EGF	KVFinchlover7475	02/22
US Southwest Sighting???	KVFinchlover7475	03/18
Alberta, Canada: Bird Sightings Galore!	CTfinchforever	04/06
CTfinchforever? Photos?	Finchfriend234	04/18
Paris Finch Symposium?	FiddlyFinch912	04/02
Gold Finch Diet	BobCarduelisIntrigue	04/08
Cardinal Lovers?	BigRedCards99	04/16
Want to start my own birdie site	KidSpyFinch2343	04/21
EGF site update!	KVFinchlover7475	06/01
New strain of Gold Finch discovered??	BettyFinchFan483	06/03
Caring for a pet bird!	Carol4Christ	06/01
Ornithology Exhibit in Arizona Museum to feature gold finches!	FinchesRgr8	06/04
Gift Ideas	BirdBrain	06/04
I’ve got a live one!	Scuderi2000	06/06
Better living through Breeding?	FiddlyFinch912	06/07
Attn: Fish	C-Finch69	04/07
Can Finch Food Hurt You?	JumpingBean88	01/46
EGF Server on the Fritz	KVFINCHLOVER7475	04/05
Goldfinch Pilgrimage	Cuckoo4Finches	06/07
The Bag's still got THE BAG.	3.5Nando	06/16
Finch Fantasy!	Goldgoddess67	06/17
Relaxing qualities of EFG song?	GenusEophona	06/18
Bird Songs on my MP3 Player	Orni47	06/20
MS: I have info on Sara	3.5Nando	07/15

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TOPIC	USER ID	POSTED
FAQ: The Basics Behind the EGF	KVFinchlover7475	02/22
US Southwest Sighting???	KVFinchlover7475	03/18
Alberta, Canada: Bird Sightings Galore!	CTfinchforever	04/06
CTfinchforever? Photos?	Finchfriend234	04/18
Paris Finch Symposium?	FiddlyFinch912	04/02
Gold Finch Diet	BobCarduelisIntrigue	04/08
Cardinal Lovers?	BigRedCards99	04/16
Want to start my own birdie site	KidSpyFinch2343	04/21
EGF site update!	KVFinchlover7475	06/01
New strain of Gold Finch discovered??	BettyFinchFan483	06/03
Caring for a pet bird!	Carol4Christ	06/01
Ornithology Exhibit in Arizona Museum to feature gold finches!	FinchesRgr8	06/04
Gift Ideas	BirdBrain	06/04
I’ve got a live one!	Scuderi2000	06/06
Better living through Breeding?	FiddlyFinch912	06/07
Attn: Fish	C-Finch69	04/07
Can Finch Food Hurt You?	JumpingBean88	01/46
EGF Server on the Fritz	KVFINCHLOVER7475	04/05
Goldfinch Pilgrimage	Cuckoo4Finches	06/07
The Bag's still got THE BAG.	3.5Nando	06/16
Finch Fantasy!	Goldgoddess67	06/17
Relaxing qualities of EFG song?	GenusEophona	06/18
Bird Songs on my MP3 Player	Orni47	06/20
MS: I have info on Sara	3.5Nando	07/15

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Behaviour and ecology

Agile and acrobatic when seeking seeds, goldfinches often hang upside down from seed heads, and flutter from plant to plant. Although they often allow a close approach when feeding, goldfinches generally show little interest in bird food tables, and so are less familiar than house sparrows, silvereyes and chaffinches. Outside the breeding season, goldfinches often occur in mixed flocks with other finches and yellowhammers. Goldfinches specialise in seeking the tiny winged seeds of thistles, and so often occur in single-species groups among a larger flock. Goldfinches have quick, short life-cycles, potentially producing ten or more young per season, and breeding at one-year-old. They are not considered migratory, but there is probably altitudinal movement in response to food availability. Reports of small flocks crossing Cook Strait have yet to be confirmed by band recoveries. Full song is mainly given October-March

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Food

Forage on ground and at all levels of vegetation, usually in small flocks. Diet predominantly weed seeds, supplemented by small invertebrates especially during the breeding season, when they are fed to the growing chicks. Important food items include seeds of thistles, pigweed and fat hen (Chenopodium spp.), dandelion, chickweed, Poa annua, ryegrass, paspalum and other grasses

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Breeding

Monogamous within each breeding season, goldfinch pairs defend a small territory around the nest, with the male singing his pleasant liquid song from a nearby perch. The small woven cup nest lined with thistle down, feathers or wool is usually placed among foliage in an outer fork of a tree, shrub or grape vine. The breeding season from October to February allows time to raise two broods of up to six chicks each (typically 4-5). The male feeds the female on the nest while she incubates and broods the young chicks; both sexes feed the chicks for their final week in the nest, and for the first 2-3 weeks after fledging

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Ecological and economic impacts

Goldfinches mainly eat the seeds of introduced weeds, especially thistles. Apart from pecking seeds from uncovered strawberries, they are generally considered neutral or beneficial to the rural economy. They have no recognised impacts on native species. Note that New Zealand has no native finch species. Kakariki parakeets are the only native birds that regularly eat small seeds (other than those encased in fruit); kakariki are now mainly found in forest habitats, where few finches occur

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Population

Common and widespread since the 1920s, flocks in the non-breeding season may number several hundred birds.

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Distribution and habitat

Throughout the country from sea level up to about 500 m altitude, in farmland, orchards, coastal vegetation, riverbeds, plantations and urban areas – almost anywhere other than dense native forest. Goldfinches are locally common on the Chatham Islands, and occur as vagrants on the Kermadec, Snares, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell Islands. They occur naturally throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and western Asia, and were introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and Bermuda

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Identification

Goldfinches are smaller than a house sparrow, with a bright yellow wingbar visible both in flight and when perched. Wings and tail otherwise black (some white spots near tail tip), contrasting with the buff-brown back. Adults have diagnostic bright red, white and black facial feathering. The red is more extensive in the males, especially above and behind the eye. Juveniles have drab brown on the head. Often in flocks (small or large), goldfinches have a bouncy undulating flight.

Voice: a liquid, tinkly calling, often given by flocks in flight. Also a shrill, clear pee-yu.

Similar species: The slightly larger greenfinch also has yellow at the base of the primaries, forming a diffuse patch on the outer wing. All finches have similar undulating flight, but can be distinguished by their calls.

about the European goldfinch

Goldfinches are small finches with flashes of bright yellow and red, common in open country throughout New Zealand. Introduced from Britain 1862-1883, their tinkling calls contribute to the collective noun “a charm of goldfinches”. They are mainly seed-eaters, and often gather in flocks to feed on thistle seed. Goldfinches frequently stray to outlying island groups, and are resident on the Chatham Islands

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Description

Introduced to Australia in the nineteenth century, the European Goldfinch is one of only two 'true finches' in Australia (the other is the Greenfinch ). It has a red face, with a black crown and shoulders. The sides of the head are white. The upperparts and flanks are brown, the abdomen and rump are white. The black wings have conspicuous yellow bars and a white trailing edge in flight. The tail is black, tipped with white. Females are similar to males but have a less red face. Juveniles have a brown head and streaked body plumage

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The European Goldfinch was introduced at numerous places in south-eastern Australia in the 19th century, and their populations quickly increased and their range expanded greatly. They now occur from Brisbane to the Eyre Peninsula. In Western Australia, the species was released in 1899, but these birds all died. Later, aviary escapees became established in parts of suburban Perth in the 1930s, and the species became common, but the population declined dramatically in the 1960s, and was extinct around Perth or nearly so by the mid-1970s

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Fairly common to common in open woodland, parks, gardens, and farmland and open country with hedges and weedy patches; often feeds on seeding thistles. Forms flocks in autumn and winter, when sometimes visits seed feeders. Can be inconspicuous, but often detected by pleasant bubbling and twittering calls and song. Adult has distinctive head pattern, with red face, conical pinkish bill; also note bold black-and-yellow wing pattern. Juvenile (seen in late summer and autumn) has plain head but told easily by bold wing pattern

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