Find beautiful American Goldfinch bird themed gifts at Animals n More.

Our gifts include a Goldfinch Bell ornament and a Goldfinch Trinket Box. We also have a Cabin Critters Goldfinch. The Jim Shore Heartwood Creek Goldfinch is shown above at right. We also have Faye the Douglas plush little Goldfinch. There is also a Goldfinch Pendulum Clock. You can find Goldfinch gifts at Jeannie's Cottage LLC.

The American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) is a bright yellow finch with a black forehead, white rump, black wings and tail with white edges. This little bird is common in flocks in bushy thickets, weedy fields and in seed-bearing trees. The female and young are recognized by the unstreaked back and breast, stubby finch bill, wingbars, whitish rump, notched tail and undulating roller-coaster flight. Male in winter and immature resemble female.

Goldfinches feed on thistles, sunflowers and dandelions. The song is long, high and sweet. The call is "per-chik-o-ree." Goldfinches are about 5 inches long; smaller than a sparrow. Goldfinches travel in flocks.

Late in the summer, the female goldfinch lays 4 or 5 pale blue eggs in a well-made cup of grass, bark strips and thistle down. The nest is found in the fork of a small sapling or shrub.

Goldfinches breed from southern British Columbia east to Newfoundland and south to California, Utah , southern Colorado, central Oklahoma, Arkansas, and the Carolinas. They winter in much of the United States.