The American goldfinch is on a lot of lists of favorite birds. There are good reasons for this. The goldfinch is common, conspicuous and easy to recognize. It occupies a range of habitats, including ...

Off and on this spring and summer, I've had the same query: Where are the goldfinches? While we have goldfinches in the Tri-State year-round, they aren't necessarily the same goldfinches. "Our" birds ...

Some of my customers have started seeing goldfinches again and wondered where the birds had gone. They were surprised to learn that the goldfinches never left — they merely had changed into their drab ...

The bright yellow American goldfinch is a favorite of backyard bird-watchers. Discover how to attract these birds with their ...

I overheard a neighbor tell her children to check out a large butterfly. Then, as it flew over the privacy fence into my garden, she added, “I guess it’s going to the neighbor’s yard where they have ...

It's that time of year when feeder hosts ask, "Where are the goldfinches?" Be assured that goldfinch populations, estimated at 42 million, face no serious threat. While goldfinches wander the ...

The Lesser Goldfinches might be shifting north in response to climate and habitat changes reported by this study, and indeed, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird Status and Trends project indicates ...

For many species of birds, the business of courtship, egg-laying, brooding and feeding young is over. But not for American goldfinches. And so as summer wanes, the time of the goldfinches begins.

Claim to fame: Goldfinches, particularly the bright yellow adult males, are popular among people who feed birds. The American goldfinch is the state bird of Iowa, New Jersey and Washington. Species ...

My grandmother reveled at the sight of bright yellow birds with black caps that attended the zinnias in her garden each summer. Wild canaries, she called them. What she didn’t know is that the only ...

Mason Maron grew up west of the Cascades. When he moved east to Pullman, Washington, in 2019 to attend Washington State University, one of the unfamiliar birds he encountered there was a small, noisy, ...

During the breeding season Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis L.) feed on milky ripe seeds of about 20 food plants. Individual Goldfinches joining a flock reduce the time spent vigilant with increasing ...