American Goldfinch - Bird for the Month of May

American Goldfinch

• The American Goldfinch is the state bird of New Jersey, Iowa, and Washington.
  
  ■Goldfinches are usually easy to find throughout much of North America, except in deep forests. Their po-ta-to-chip flight call draws attention to them in open country. They’re most abundant in areas with thistle plants, and near feeders.
  
  ■Goldfinches are among the strictest vegetarians in the bird world, selecting an entirely vegetable diet and only inadvertently swallowing an occasional insect.
  
  ■As of May 2007, the oldest known American Goldfinch was 10 years 5 months old.
  
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