Pair of Goldfinches on a park tree with some long out of date Christmas decorations.

Prospect Park, Reading, UK Canon R5 Mk II RF200-800mm lens

  • taiidan@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    What type? I’m only familiar with American Goldfinch. Those are so pretty!

    • KevinFRK@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      To a UK bird book, it’s just a “Goldfinch” Carduelis Carduelis, I’m afraid. Wikipedia has it as “European Goldfinch” , but that I suspect is just to help confused folk across the big pond.

      Male and female broadly look the same, so that’s quite possibly a mated pair.

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        10 months ago

        That’s pretty neat that the sexes would look so similar. I don’t see that often.