American Goldfinch on Thistle
Carduelis tristis
                    
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left American Goldfinch right
 
2001 Photograph, American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis, Finch Family Fringillidae) feeding on thistle, Huntley Meadows, Alexandria, Virginia, © 2020.
You hear a Goldfinch's flight song where the bird is doing its roller-coaster flight pattern and chirping on the up-slope.
Jian Zhe Li

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