One of San Diego County’s most delightful and colorful birds is the lesser goldfinch. They are highly social little rockets of color that will bring joyful chatter to your backyard bird feeder. While ...

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

Lesser goldfinches (spinus psaltria) are tiny, stub-billed songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails. Males are bright yellow below with a glossy black cap and white patches in the ...

Lesser goldfinches are tiny, stub-billed songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails. Males are bright yellow below with a glossy black cap and white patches in the wings; their backs ...

Lesser goldfinches are common in and around Santa Fe in the summer months. It’s not uncommon to see these small, yellow finches in the winter, as we are just on the northern edge of their winter range ...

Populations of the lesser goldfinch, native to the American Southwest, are traveling northward, likely because of the changing climate and landscape modification, according to a Cornell University ...

New research shows that Lesser Goldfinches, a small songbird traditionally found in Southwest USA, are expanding their range northward through the Pacific Northwest at an unprecedented rate, providing ...

Males are very distinct from other goldfinch species. The female American goldfinch is larger and has white undertail coverts, a wide buffy lower wing bar with very little white at the base for the ...

Lesser goldfinches are in the Santa Fe area all during nesting season but their population has really exploded lately. Young goldfinches have fledged and activity at thistle feeders is off the charts ...

When we moved to Boise in 1992, the lesser goldfinch was so rare that the sighting of a single individual would send birders scurrying to the scene. These birds would occasionally show up on the Boise ...

Throughout Marin, there is a little yellow bird that the modern books miscall the lesser goldfinch. Miscall, because this bird is “lesser” in nothing but the insignificant comparison of size. I prefer ...