| NOUN | a European goldfinch | European goldfinches | |
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- 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".
- The Indonesian serin was formerly placed in the genus "Serinus" but a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences found that the species was not closely related to other member of "Serinus" nor to the geographically nearest finch, the Vietnamese greenfinch but to the European Goldfinch "Carduelis carduelis" and to the Citril Finch "Carduelis citrinella".
- "Cardellina" is a genus of passerine birds in the New World warbler family Parulidae. The genus name "Cardellina" is a diminutive of the Italian dialect word "Cardella" for the European goldfinch.
- The seeds are an important winter food resource for some birds, notably the European goldfinch. Teasels are often grown in gardens and encouraged on some nature reserves to attract them.
- Formerly, both it and the Citril finch were placed in the genus "Serinus", but they appear to be close relatives of the European goldfinch (Arnaiz-Villena "et al.", 1998).
- The word "distelfink" (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besides "Stieglitz") the German name for the European goldfinch.
- Common animals are the mammal squirrel and the reptile lizard. BIrds include woodpecker, European goldfinch, magpie and parrot.
- Animals observed in the nature park are the mammals jackal, porcupine, squirrel, the reptile tortoise, the bird species European goldfinch and finch.
- The seeds of "Centaurea cyanus" are one of the favourite foods of the European goldfinch.
- Some of these are permanent populations of sedentary non-migrants such as tawny owl or red grouse, whereas others have their numbers augmented by winter visitors from the continent (for example common starling), or depleted by winter hard-weather movements to Ireland or southern Europe (for example European goldfinch).
- The genus name "Cardellina" is a diminutive of the Italian dialect "Cardella", a name for the European goldfinch, and the specific epithet "pusilla" means "very small".
- A different myth associates the European goldfinch with the title "Thornbird", recounting that a goldfinch plucked a thorn out of Christ's crown of thorns and blood splashed onto its feathers.
- Conder started recording the behaviour of the European goldfinch at this camp.
- Steglitz (...) is a locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in Southwestern Berlin, the capital of Germany. [...] is a Slavic name for the European goldfinch, similar to the German [...].
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