Find beautiful American Goldfinch bird themed gifts at The Forest Cottage.

Our gifts include a Goldfinch Garden Stake, a Goldfinch Bell ornament and a Goldfinch Trinket Box. The little plush goldfinch is made by Wild Republic and is part of their Audubon Bird series. We also have a Cabin Critters Goldfinch, and a Goldfinch Key Clip. There is also a nested goldfinch ornament. The Goldfinch Wall Vase is from Ibis and Orchid. The Jim Shore Heartwood Creek Goldfinch is shown above at right. 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.